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rock-solid and impenetrable, and they had huge mouths that gaped wide.
Dead whales were drawn into these mouths [...] Nothing could escape
them. Swift, hard-hulled ships raced through the sea at impossible
speeds, but no boats were lowered: the whales were killed by lightning-
harpoons that flew through the air from th
e ships’ bows with a flash of fire
and smoke, and when struck the whales died in agony, torn apart from
within while they still lived. (196-7)
Unsurprisingly, considering her blunt and gruesome approach to achieving the
effect of defamiliarization here
, Teresa Toten’s review of the novel for the May
1999 issue of
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