““Long ago, in a town called Nantucket in the state of Massachusetts, there lived an old, eccentric sea captain named Ahab. He was a captain of whale hunting ships. He hunted a special kind of whale, an extremely large, absolutely gigantic species of whale, generally of a dark color, for its oil. A year before the beginning of this story, Captain Ahab had been on a voyage during which he had lost his leg to a whale, a totally unique whale. Even though this whale was of the generally dark species Ahab hunted, he was pure white! As a result, he became known simply as “the White Whale”. Another name he came to be known by was “Moby-Dick”. Nobody knows who invented the latter name! It just emerged, and was passed from storyteller to storyteller as the legend grew.””
