During my
Moby Dick reading, I have been encountering some banter that at least can force
you to smile. I have always expected Moby Dick as a serious reading, but I apparently
was wrong, there’s a sense of humour too in this book. Well, I am now featuring
this one on Scene on Three because it made me laugh (quite) out loud, just by imagining
it!
Ismael was
telling us in chapter 65 about how sperm whale (Moby Dicks’ ‘family’) meat was often
served among the whale ships.
“In the case of a small Sperm Whale the
brains are accounted a fine dish. The casket of the skull is broken into with
an axe, and the two plump, whitish lobes being withdrawn (precisely resembling
two large puddings), they are then mixed with flour, and cooked into a most delectable
mess, in flavor somewhat resembling calves’ head, which is quite a dish among
some epicures; and every one knows that some young bucks among the epicures, by
continually dining upon calves’ brains, by and by get to have a little brains
of their own, so as to be able to tell a calf’s head from their own heads;
which, indeed, requires uncommon discrimination. And that is the reason why a
young buck with an intelligent looking calf’s head before him, is somehow one
of the saddest sights you can see. The head looks a sort of reproachfully at
him, with an ‘Et tu Brute!’ expression.”
LOL!!!
By the way,
if you haven’t read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, or at least read/heard about
his (Caesar, not Shakespeare) murder, you might not see the funniest part…. :)
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LOL, merasa dikhianati ya, wkwkwk
ReplyDeleteYup! Lagipula om Melville sarkastis banget bilang bahwa "by continually dining upon calves’ brains, by and by get to have a little brains of their own, so as to be able to tell a calf’s head from their own heads" LOL!!
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