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Had [the whale's] tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of Darmonodes' elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones.
--Herman Melville, Moby Dick. Sketch by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1639.
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I particularly like the "zone caressing" part -- libidinal pachyderms are rare, so I'm told...
Posted by: The Necromancer | September 23, 2009 at 12:27 PM