Perhaps, you saw this viral Tweet a few weeks ago, as I did. Honestly, once you’re knee deep in M Dick, everything becomes a reference to the novel, even just hearing about something about nautical has me shaking and puts me in an odd state of reverence. But this Tweet appearing on my timeline was really something else, it seemed like it should be a chapter right out of the book. It’s also insane that we didn’t even know this about sperm whales until 2017. Somewhere, in the grave, Melville is weeping over then beautiful chapter he could have written about these vertical sleeping pods of whales, if only he’d known. So many of the QT/ are like, “it me” or “it’s me and the girls” and what’s funny is that is probably what Melville would have done with the chapter, started a chapter talking about the behavior of whales, or a whaling-related con sort, only to end with how it captures human nature. All joking aside, I am actually a little awestruck to learn about this behavior of whales.