"Whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff."
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Whale killing? I believe the first line...talks about Leviathan on a wide long whale chase, and doing it with a merciless devistation. Kind of telling of the whale exterminations, or excessive killing. The whale smoking his like pipe, man killing the last whale, and with himself evaporate in the final puff...there isn't anything left, once we destroy something...Just like with our history in the united states, how we excessively killed rich wildlife, and no longer have it...overall just overall destruction of one leads to our final destruction?
ReplyDeletethe author seems to be describing whales as this great sea creature that will become extinct at the hands of man. The last man will dissapear like the last whale after all species are destroyed and there is nothing left.
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