quaad quoted Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale! Yet so it is. By some, ambergris is supposed to be the cause, and by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale. How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth’s pills, and then running out of harm’s way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.
— Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Chapter 92. Ambergris. i rate this chapter at 4.5 stars. question: what is your preferred pronunciation of Ambergris? amber-griss (very americanized) amber-grease (slightly less americanized) amber-gree (anglo-french hybrid) ombre-gree (french)
should bookwyrm have polls?