The Cretan Labyrinth

Breathing is only a function indispensable to vitality inasmuch as it withdraws from the air a certain element. If all the blood in a man could be aeratedwith one breath, he might then seal up his nostrils and not fetch another for a considerable time. The sperm whale breathes through his spiricle alone. His windpipe has no connection with his mouth. And this is on the top of his head. Seldom do you insult him by saying that when he rumbles so strangely he talks through his nose. But then again, what has the whale to say? i have never known any profound being that had anything to say to this world,. unless forced to