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Melville and the Whale
"It was Passaic's choice not to be part of the consolidation," says LSNJ President Melville D. Miller, Jr.
As Herman Melville once famously asked in Moby-Dick , why don't whales collapse under the pressure of all the water they swim under?
As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, "a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!"
Frazier does the opposite of writers such as Melville or Woolf, who historicize the language by shaking its roots.