Re: no such thing as bad publicity?

mimus <tinmimus99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And, of course (I'm not going to worry about a spoiler warning here), the
whale wins, which is all nice and modern and fuzzy-warm . . . .

I'd have to call 'not really' on that one. In a modern sense the
whale would win because the had a Big Heart, or Persevered in the Face
of Overwhelming Odds, or at a minimum Wasn't Evil or somesuch
fuzzy-warmness.

The idea that the whale would win (as he did) because he was an
Awesome Force of Nature, Terrible in his Beauty and Implacable in his
Justice is strictly 19th century.

D.
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