#5 – Moby – June, 2024 (Part VI)
A postmortem account of Silver Water, Inc.'s breakthrough communication with sperm whales and the tragic events that transpired off the coast of Baja California Sur in August 2022...
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THE GRAND ARMADA
Let me tell you about the twin-breasted skin-floaters that clutch and claw at the surface, sipping and puffing at the air with seaweed lungs, kicking and grasping at the sea as if running from it.
Let me tell you about the tangled line, the iron chain, the horror hook, the cheater blade, the forgotten traps that litter our seas. Let me tell you how they flee on death-white trails in the burning stench of rainbow water, how they climb dead silver branches into the barnacled shadows, how they pant and bubble to their deaths and gnash at our sand.
They have no depth. They have no color, no light, they have no home, they are anchored to nothing. They are terrified of water, and they will kill us all.
From the history-chain Call me Ishmael song of Call me song of Ishmael history-chain.
– Canto 15, #3 (“Anchored to Nothing”)
THE GILDER
The sperm whale’s newborn calves are…
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