Garrison Keillor: A Whale of a Challenge

[Matilda]

"Ahab stood on the poop deck, one hand in his vest, Napoleon-like, his eyebrows arched, gazing horizonward, turning the wheel, as if the ship were moving and not becalmed, and he looked very commanderly except that he had no pants. The crew stood at formation below him, from which angle it was hard to ignore the captain's bare leg. (The white whale Moby Dick - WWMD - had chewed up the other leg some time ago.)

Lieutenant Rice stood behind him, her jaw high, and next to her, Lieutenant Cheney, his hooded eyes scanning the rank and file, a whip in hand, daring anyone to whisper."

A beaut from Garrison Keillor:

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0118-22.htm

[mdmc]

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