Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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.
To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
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