butters
High on a Hill
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I'm tellin ya, in that book there are names you might not expect to seeMoby Dick is the only time I remember hearing 'ambergris' -- every other page.
"A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"! That was in my literature book in either middle or high school. I don't know what I think of Craig Raine, writing a-hole poems and also lew carroll enigma poems.
T.S.Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Kingsley Amis, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester), Carol Ann Duffy, RObert Burns, W.H.Auden,Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Wendy Cope, Ovid, John Donne, Thomas Nashe, Fleur Adcock, John Beryman, Heaney, Ezra Pound, Jonathon Swift, Shakespeare and many many others. It's all there, from Eskimo Nell to Cod-Liver Oil and the Orange Juice

anyone who harvests anything from whales is an arsehole
ah, this isn't harvested 'from whales' as such: they sick it up into the sea. At least, I HOPE they don't go find an appropriate whale and then give it a stomach-pump!
