If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.
Whaling was the oil business of its day.
I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.