One of these animals inspires a digression that alludes to a tall phantom of the Hartz forest and Peruvians who dread the Andes, and includes an extended comparison to the "Xerxes" of a vast herd of Prairie horses.
One character claims that a Christian painter of these animals "succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindoo." A character who takes his name from these animals yells secrets into Mr. Yod's grotto while dating a "village drunk" who attempts to secure a record deal for the neglected "Bored Twins." One of these animals inspires a digression that alludes to a tall phantom of the Hartz forest and Peruvians who dread the Andes, and includes an extended comparison to the "Xerxes" of a vast herd of Prairie horses. (*) Saluni blinds herself by staring into at an eclipse out of jealousy over her love triangle with one of these animals named Sharisha and her "Caller" in a Zakes Mda novel. "The heartless void and immensities of the universe" "shadow forth" from the color of one of these animals that kills Steelkit's flogger Radney in a story from the Town- Ho Inn narrated by their sleeping stabber Tashtego. For 10 points, name these animals exemplified by Ahab's white quarry Moby Dick.
One character claims that a Christian painter of these animals "succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindoo.
toothed whales [or cetaceans; accept Odontoceti; accept North Atlantic rights (which are "indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale"); accept sperm whales ("This whale, among the English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale, and the Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words"); accept Eubalaena glacialis or Physter macrocephalus; accept any other answers that are obviously about whales; I guess you should prompt on "fish" or equivalents in honor of Ishmael's anti-Linnaean classification in the chapter "Cetology"]