Unlike Ahab however, revenge was not his only motive. This particular whale also possessed two commodities of mythical, almost mystical qualities.

That was not the reaction he was hoping for.

If the Minister decides to adapt a no-pay-no-pill policy, Beckett's worst fears about the mythical impotency drug Bando, expressed in the novel IT]Watt, will resonate uncomfortably, linking past with present with a continuity no one can welcome.