It started innocently enough, with a Jack Ziegler cartoon in the January 11th New Yorker: (#1) Captain Ahab, identifiable through his peg leg and harpoon,  is apparently looking for his whale in a book store (where he will, no doubt, find copies of Moby-Dick, but no whales). Of course, the cartoon isn’t comprehensible if you … Continue reading Ahab and the whale