finding solutions in his books relishing words – "flensing" in Ep.1 – and a quote machine. But for all the literary razzmatazz, it's the series' emotional cast which sets it apart: the ...

It was then towed to the bottom of the slipway by a rowboat. A steel-wire rope dragged the whale up the incline onto the flensing plane. Once in position, the whale was stripped of its blubber ...