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Now when these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs, had wearily hauled their fat fish high and dry, promising themselves a good 150 pounds from the precious oil and bone; and in fantasy sipping rare tea with their wives, and good ale with their cronies, upon the strength of their respective shares; up steps a very learned and most Christian and charitable gentleman, with a copy of Blackstone under his arm; and laying it upon the whale's head, he says -- Hands off!

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Plath's most recent biographer, Ann Stevenson, a poet herself, attacks her subject for, among other things, writing the famous "Daddy" poem that Stevenson maintains was "factually" unfair to Otto Plath (who wasn't literally a Nazi) and, again, for writing "Medusa," which is the name of the jellyfish Aurela, Plath's mother's name, and which ends: "Off, off eely tentacle!

Orgel and his companions befriend unlikely, but lovable characters, including an anxious snail named Eely and a jolly, cheery camel named Choop--whose heart is made of gold.