On 3/6/07, Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> In this free 130 odd page web book this author examines and dismisses
> most cosmological theories, proposes his own point of view and
> concludes we all may know nothing much about anything.
>
> The whole thing uses the tale of Moby Dick as a metaphor for the
> obsessive search for cosmological fulfilment and the pointlessness and
> obsession of following what may prove to be a phantasm and what will
> quite possibly prove fatal to all. To see how well the metaphor fits
> you'll have to read this (and possibly Moby Dick as well!). As MD was
> written very much tongue in cheek and experimentally by Melville the
> metaphor may be even more apt than he intends.
>
>         http://www.empyreanquest.com/repulse.htm
>
>
> Worth at least a skim
>

  "What do you think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small drop of
  something queer about that, eh?

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en028600

  A white whale--did ye mark that,  man?

(Now we're back on topic.)
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