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-it's the 1800s. there's a resource the whole world depends on. only way to get it - on the other side of the world, find and kill a biblical monster
-
-you can call me ishmail. because i'm gonna tell you about whales.
-
-# some whale basics
-
-whales are broadly divided into two kinds: toothed whales and baleen whales.
-toothed whales have teeth (duh), baleen whales have a flexible filter-feeding system also named baleen.
-baleen is derived from latin balaena, related to greek phalaina, all of which mean 'whale', making baleen whale - whale whale
-
-a notable whale species is sperm whale (like moby dick, or pearl from sponge bob).
-inside its square head, there's a highly sought after liquid called spermacite.
-sperm whale is actually short for spermacite whale. spermacite means whale sperm. so spermacite whale is a whale sperm whale.
-spermacite is a thick waxy substance that is speculated to aid with buyancy, however it cannot be confirmed because sperm whales hate us now.
-but it definitely isn't sperm.
-
-# whale products
-
-once a whale is caught, whalers peel its skin like an orange, and boil the blubber into whale oil.
-whale meat gets harvested for food. bones are sometimes ground into fertilizer
-
-sperm whales get scalped and have spermacite extracted from the junk.
-(junk is the actual name of the part of their heads that house the liquid, i swear.)
-spermacite is brought to land, where it's chilled over winter, and later squeezed into sperm oil.
-solid leftovers were bleached and sold as spermaceti wax.
-
-baleen is also called whalebone, despite being closer to nails or hair than bone in structure.
-baleen is harvested from the whale's mouth, and used wherever a thin flexible material can be used.
-most famously, it was used for clothes construction - corserts, stays, bustles, crinolines etc.
-
-whalers collect toothed whale's teeth and carve them to pass the time (it's either that or homoeroticism).
-
-ambergris is fossilized bowel secretions of sperm whales. it's speculated to be a reaction to bowel irritations.
-
-
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-in 1590s, dutch explorers stumble upon whales while exploring the arctic, and promptly establish a monopoly on whaling for the next century. britain and france scramble to compete, going full throttle on colonization.
-britain gets scammed into colonizing the bermudas by (false) promises of whales, ambergris and pearls. it took them over 50 years to catch their first whale.
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-so by the industrial revolution, multiple world powers have whaling industries, and whale products like whale oil 
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+\chapter{The Bodies of Giants}
+
+It's the 1800s, and the whole world depends on one resource.
+The only way to get it -- go to the other side of the world, then find and kill a Biblical monster.
+You can call me Ishmail, because I'm gonna tell you about whales.
+
+\begin{multicols}{2}
+
+\subsubsection{Some Whale Basics}
+
+Whales are broadly divided into two kinds: toothed whales and baleen whales.
+Toothed whales have teeth, baleen whales have a flexible filter-feeding system, also named baleen.
+Baleen is derived from Latin \textit{balaena}, related to Greek \textit{phalaina}, all of which mean `whale', making `baleen whale' -- `whale whale'.
+
+A notable whale species is sperm whale (like \textit{Moby Dick}, or Pearl from \textit{Sponge Bob}).
+Inside its square head, there's a highly sought after liquid called spermacite.
+`Sperm whale' is actually short for `spermacite whale'.
+`Spermacite' means `whale sperm'.
+So `spermacite whale' means `whale sperm whale'.
+`Spermacite' is a thick, waxy substance that is speculated to aid with bouyancy, however it cannot be confirmed because sperm whales hate us now.
+But it definitely isn't sperm.
+
+\subsubsection{Whale Products}
+
+Once a whale is caught, whalers peel its skin like an orange, and boil the blubber into whale oil.
+Whale meat gets harvested for food.
+Bones are sometimes ground into fertilizer
+
+Sperm whales get scalped and have spermacite extracted from the junk
+(`junk' is the actual name of the part of their heads that house the liquid).
+Spermacite is brought to land, where it's chilled over Winter, and later squeezed into sperm oil.
+Solid leftovers were bleached and sold as spermacite wax.
+
+Baleen is also called `whalebone', despite being closer to nails or hair than bone in structure.
+Baleen is harvested from the whale's mouth, and used wherever a thin flexible material can be used.
+Most famously, it was used for clothes' construction -- corsets, stays, bustles, crinolines, et c.
+
+Whalers collect toothed whales' teeth and carve them to pass the time (it's either that or homoeroticism).
+
+Ambergris is fossilized bowel secretions of sperm whales.
+It's speculated to be a reaction to bowel irritations.
+
+\end{multicols}