“But much like the modern petroleum industry — which began in the late 1850s, making it only slightly younger than Melville’s novel — whaling quickly came up against the limits of its resources.”
The spill in the Gulf, the here and now, is played against the backdrop of Melville’s Moby Dick, the there and then, in Randy Kennedy’s fascinating New York Times piece, “The Ahab Parrallax: Moby Dick and the Spill.”
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