The Verge Review of Animals: the elephant seal

This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.

In David Foster Wallace’s first novel, The Broom of the System, one Norman Bombardini is planning to eat the entire universe, to eat himself into infinity so nothing exists that isn’t self. I find it difficult to look at an elephant seal — particularly a large bull — and not see…

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The Verge Review of Animals: the elephant seal