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Obviously there’s ‘Moby Dick’. Although ‘Moby Dick’ himself rather than just literally being a whale is instead a leviathan-sized metaphor for the American pants industry – Melville’s father having been an importer of French dry goods. The character of Queequeg represents front-buttoned blue cotton pantaloons and we can certainly tell how Melville felt about them.Continue reading “A Treatise on Literary Cetaceans – The Importance of Whales in Western Literature”