Nantucket
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Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Nantucket was Americas primary base of naval operations during the Whale Wars of the 15th to 20th centuries. In more recent times, Nantucket has become a bustling historical and tourist center.
[edit] Name
The name is Wampanoag or Narraganset, from nai-an, "excessive"(an) combined with "penis"(nai), tuck, "tidal run", and the locative ending, -et:
- nai-an-tuck-et
- "Place of tidal run around a excessive penis"
The name is derivative of the local practice of standing naked on the beach and waiting for the tide to come in and flow over one's penis; local tradition holds that a boy passes into manhood when the water reaches his penis before his knees.
[edit] Literary Influence
Between it's vital role as a shipping and whaling center up through the early 20th century and the legends of its indiginous population, Nantucket found itself deeply entrenched in American culture. In fact, it is rather difficult to find a literary work about American sailing ships that does not contain at least a passing reference to Nantucket.
The indiginous population were reported to have substantially larger than normal genitalia, which led to quite a few stories and poems about the infamous Men from Nantucket. Oscar Wilde is considered to have written the definitive poetic work on the matter when he wrote a limerick centered around a Nantucket native protagonist. The limerick is reproduced here with Mr. Wilde's permission:
- There once was a man from Nantucket
- Whose cock was so long he could suck it.
- While wiping his chin,
- He said with a grin,
- "If my ear was a cunt, I could fuck it."
Writer Herman Melville was the first to successfully bring the two cultural elements together in his work Moby Dick. The work, centered around whaling is set on a ship which initially leaves from Nantucket in search of a great white whale. The whole tale is often seen as an allegory for the penis envy felt by Europeans when the first encountered the massively well endowed Nantucket natives.
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