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"Though elephants have stood for their full-lengths, Leviathan has never yet fully floated himself for his portrait. The living whale in his full majesty and significance is only to seen at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out of sight, like the launched line of battle ship; and out of his element it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist his body into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick