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So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, p.184.
So it turns out that Ron Swanson was right:
For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, p.344.
Not quite as hard as they say it is, but TMI about whales.