Is it any wonder, then, that you can't shake the visions of the yawning chasms ahead? Of course, you know what that disturbance in the water is. If fortune turns its unfeeling gaze toward us, we may reach the great albino beast before the day is through. As we secure the lanyards, look away if you must. But look not to a chocolate cake, nor to its carcinogenic icing, for this will but distract you from the perilous plight of the Pequod, whose lonely death rattle the mighty leviathan has already sounded.
Fact: two colons are also about right.
Did he really use the phrase "carcinogenic icing"? Wow.
ReplyDeletewait--melville? noo. i wish. there should be a mcsweeney's link in there. but maybe you saw that, in which case, yes! he (nathaniel missildine) said that.
ReplyDeleteohhh. i wish, too. i see the mcsweeney's link--that makes more sense! oh, poor melville...he had such a lofty status in my mind for a day, based on "carcinogenic icing"...
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