Who Is Like unto the Beast? Tall Tales of Fail Whales

I’ve lived with leviathan for as long as I can remember. Not the leviathan of Hobbes’ Leviathan , which I perused for the first time prior to penning this chapter, but the leviathan that shaped Hobbes’ Leviathan , the leviathan of the Holy Bible. More specifically, since there are several leviathans in the Good Book — Jonah’s whale being perhaps the best known — I’m referring to the leviathan of the Apocalypse. This is the leviathan that appears in Revelation (12: 3) during the final countdown to Armageddon, “when no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Rev 13: 17). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.