Zomby Dick or, The Undead Whale

Author:Herman Melville & JD Livingstone [Melville, Herman & Livingstone, JD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Memento Mori Press
Published: 2012-10-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter II. Hercules

Concerning Hercules—grandson of Perseus—his admittance to our ranks is certain, for that brawny doer of rejoicing good deeds did, for his second labor, do battle with the Lernaen hydra, mayhap the first created zomby, raised by Hera for the sole purpose of delivering the doom of Hercules; a doom he deftly avoided.

There at the spring of Amymone did Hercules fire flaming brands to roust the Hydra from its chthonic lair, then with sharpened scythe and storied club—both stupendous zomby weapons, to be sure, but the scythe being devilish difficult to master—Hercules battled the many-headed Hydra. Knowing its final head to be immortal—and is not the zomby in possession of some small immortality?—Hercules did sever that head with Athena’s gifted golden sword and buried that head, still slavering, under a prodigious boulder along the sacred path to Lerna and Elaius. Some have said this hydra head may be the true source of the modern zomby, and profess that once unentombed, the head did subsequently spread all latter-day zomby plagues across the wide, weird world. I know naught of this, but that Hercules may be deemed one of the greatest of zomby hunters is beyond dispute. I claim him for one of our clan.

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