Monday, 10 August 2009

Untimely Stimulus #7

"Whaling separated sexes; and in this isolated place, as isolated as any ship, and yet bleaker in mid-winter, whaling 'widows' had recourse to opium to cope with the loneliness. Others used plaster dildos known as 'he's-at-homes'."

Philip Hoare 'Leviathan (or, The Whale)"

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