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"George had planned his reading meticulously: he thought of the greater amount of time he would have after he retired, balanced that against gradually diminishing reading speed due to fading eyesight and an aging brain, factoring in the medical history of his parents and grandparents; he then proceeded to make a list of all the books he wanted - and would manage - to read during the rest of his life, put those books in the perfect order and commenced reading in the sweet certainty that he would draw his last breath just after finishing Moby-Dick, the crowning glory of his list. Hence, when a cable broke on a helicopter that was carrying a whale which then crashed through George's roof and killed him just before he could find out whether Ahab got the whale or the whale got Ahab, our hero - deplorably yet all too understandably - was too irritated to get the clue hidden in God's little joke and spent eternity being royally pissed off about never finding out."
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