The compass needle between his legs
From Gnomon Chronicles
I think Melville would have preferred "soul penis" [to "soul member"].
He never actually said the P word, but if you read between the lines of Melville and Lovecraft's Omoo: A Narrative of Horrors in the South Seas, it's pretty clear that Melville navigated by the compass needle between his legs.
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Moby-Vamp is a novel by Herman Melville about the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, a giant vampire whale.
![Moby-Pink; or, The Girl is an 1851 novel featuring the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Orchid, for revenge on Moby Pink, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's penis at the [REDACTED].](/w/images/thumb/0/03/Moby-Pink.jpg/83px-Moby-Pink.jpg)
Moby-Pink; or, The Girl is an 1851 novel featuring the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Orchid, for revenge on Moby Pink, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's penis at the [REDACTED].
Fiction cross-reference
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Moby-Pink
- Moby-Vamp
- Omoo: A Narrative of Horrors in the South Seas
- Satirist, not satyrist
Categories
Nonfiction cross-reference
Categories
- Category:Essays by Karl Jones (nonfiction)
- Category:Herman Melville (nonfiction)
- Category:Sex (nonfiction)
External links
- Satyr @ Wikipedia
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