Tuesday, October 12, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 404

Title: There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance. It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting. I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.

6.25 inches by 9.25 inches
acrylic paint and charcoal on found paper
October 10, 2010

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