Presidential Election, the Ehimemaru, and Afghanistan
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast, some people remembered passages in the book “Moby Dick” written by Herman Melville just before the Civil War:
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"Call me Ishmael." (Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, page 1.)
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It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL."
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN."
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What now I mind is similarity between the sailor’s name ISHMAEL and the EHIMEMARU, a 191-foot fishery training boat of a Japanese high school.
The Ehimemaru was hit by a USS submarine off Honolulu in February, 2001, losing nine lives including high school students.
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Therefore, the headlines should be:
"In 2000, Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States."
"In early 2001, Tragic Voyage by the Ehimemaru."
"In late 2001, Bloody Battle in Afghanistan."
This way, the 9/11 tragedy was foretold through Herman Melville just before the opening of Japan to the world in the late 19th century.
The whale hunting ship Ishmael had embarked on chased and tried to kill a gigantic white whale named Moby Dick, an enemy of long standing of the ship’s captain’s. But the ship was destroyed and all the crew except Ishmael was killed by Moby Dick in the area of the Pacific Ocean near Japan.
The story told some backgrounds of the era when Japan was forced to open its door to the world in the wake of arrival of the black ships of Commodore Perry from the U.S. So, this novel, famous in the U.S., is also well known in Japan.
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It is also known that the submarine that hit and sank the Ehimemaru was at that time operating for orientation cruise. Its guests of the day were mainly from Texas and related to the oil industry.
Therefore, believability concerning the foretelling might be further strengthened. Especially, you should be aware of this association: Pearl Harbor attacks, 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the War on Terror.
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In the novel, there was another interesting sailor on board the whale hunting ship. The sailor, Starbuck, was a moderate man who loved coffee. Accordingly, his name was adopted by a certain coffeehouse franchise company, as everybody knows.
Even the Chinese President, in an interview at Seattle, reportedly told that he would frequently go out for coffee to Starbuck’s if he was not president.
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Herman Melville, once having lived at a plot later occupied by the World Trade Center in New York, seems to have been a mysterious messenger sent to the year 2001.
If you can completely comprehend the message or the headlines, you may be of great help for mankind placed by fate in the same boat.
But, reading “Moby Dick,” for example, at a Starbuck’s does not suit my nature; you, too, had better read EEE-reports.
“DO NOT TAKE REVENGE ON SOMEONE WHO WRONGS YOU”