SUCK DICK NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

Melville began creating Moby-Dick in February 1850 and concluded 18 months afterwards, a year soon after he had predicted. Melville drew on his experience as a typical sailor from 1841 to 1844, including on whalers, and on broad reading in whaling literature. The white whale is modeled on a notoriously challenging-to-catch albino whale Mocha Dick,