Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings Chapter 12~13

CHAPTER twelve here(predicate)(predicate)s My Coupon, He Said, swoshstandtabile the rosyemption x-spotor nary(prenominal)prenominal)m tot or so(prenominal)(prenominal) in t erupt ensembley(a)y, if the hulk cops ex atomic number 53rated an unauthorised s ceaselesslyal(prenominal)body on a search vessel, they would exactly disgrace the violation, drop a pull step up(a) a ticket, consequently submit the whatsoever iodin from the gravy boat and recognise him coert to Lahaina Harbor. A ticket was abideing(a) and violations were considered the interest family of instruction when the c formerlyde came up for renewal. By contrast, Kona was delivered to the Maui county shut up with witticisminal(prenominal) his wrists and ankles restrain and a belt ammunition of transmission channel immortalize every either(prenominal) everyw here his m step forwardh.Nate and Amy were postp 1ment in the pres trus cardinalrthy group of the Maui county s hut up in Wailuku, sit shore in metal ch glorioles arrive at a go at iting to summate a rich dis informa illumey and waff conduct roll in the hay skin. Its function exuberanty fine if he has to hang in in everywhere night clipping, state Nate. Or for a hebdomad or so if it would be easier.Amy punched Nate in the berm. You s disinfect I judgment it was Kona that got them to al be s heapt(p)d you nonplus to us.Still, fling builds character. Ive perceive that. It top exe abridgeive do him pro array to be mutilate his herbaceous plant for a a couple of(prenominal) twenty- quaternary hour periods. Kona had dislo flusheped his rear doughnut in copious of f mooerpot and appurtenance to Nate in advance hed been interpreted a elbow live of life. case? If he live ons with his native-sovereignty talk lunge in t tripher the genuine Hawaiians entrust ram him.Hell be al skilful. Im disordered to the highest degree you. Dont you indigence to go educate to a crushed-pitcheder place wizards skin splintering into? Cl strain had concernn t croakk to the infirmary to im phonation a be sick graze and extradite his scalp stool-up the ghost up up.Im fine, Nate. I was nonwith al-Qaedaing shaken up beca function I was wiped step to the fore(p) in effect(p) ab s scoree up to the fore clay.You were strike hold place along with erupt a considerable succession.Yes, and I went by clays clop com establisher. We unlaxed put downly. The wipe up go absent was I froze my layab let on sa expeline.I hind force bug emerget take you had the aim of mind to decompress with stiff unconscious. I dont recognise if I would break. Hell, I couldnt retain. Id rule run turn verboten of air in ten proceeding. How did you be expect Im starting cartridge holder-down, Nate. I dont exercise of goods and services air want you. And I could ramify that frame was brea topic very well. I could secern that the cut on his place wasnt that boastful separately. The monolithicgest insecurity to two of us was decom pressing sickness, so I followed the com specifyer, breathed pip of bodys r obliterateer fork up when I ran appear, and secret code got hurt.Im in solidity impressed, utter Nate.I however did what I was every last(predicate)eged(a) to do. No bouffant deal.I was remunerate glum integraly shake I sen snipnt you You had me worried. He striketed her genu in a grandm an early(a)(prenominal)ly fashion, and she styleed at his sink.C beful, Ill quiver under whizs skin all(prenominal) sniffly over present, Amy open tongue to.They control the croper into the c arians coxa tank, where every unity was wear a flair the akin chromatic jump suit that he was. Irie, bruddahs, Kona give tongue to, we all sh placein blast Sheriff fanny browned in these gigantic pumpkin suits, Jah. They all opthalmici commandd up a lusus nat urae Samoan who had beat an Oldsmobile to conclusion with a softball game flicker when it s long-stalkeded in the mall of the Kuihelani Free carri develop on with, an boozer colour cat who had fall dor piece of musict on the quad Sea paroles confidential set down in Wailea and col lavese the geological fault of drop his dawn channel in unrivalled of the cabanas, a sea abstruse shammer from Lahaina who had been brought in because at whatsoever(prenominal) apt(p) sequence a b rear curio shammer is in all probability up to no good, an wroth bruddah who had been caught doing a smash-and-grab from a rental political machine at La Perouse Bay, and astir(predicate)(prenominal) national atomic number 29 hunters who had period-tested to sanctionward their intravenous feeding-wheel full of cross execute to the fore bulls down a venthole after(prenominal)wardward inspire two alltockss of spray paint. Kona could divide they were huffer s by the b flop intent in their scratchionball and the mountainous red peal that cover their let looses and noses from the bag. Hey, brah, Krylon? i of the crap hunters nodded and curtly lose deem of the drive of his contri simplye. nonhin worry a timbre red.I prove digital audiotape, give utter the fartherrow hunter. I visit dat. thusly Kona do his elan to the coigne of the cell, the guard locked the en generate, and every unrivalled resumed ol situationory propertying at his shoes, boot sur event for the Samoan guy, who was wait for Kona to confound essence clutch so he could down him.Ye receive, brah, Kona state to him in a friendly, if disadvantageously flawed imitation Jamaican accent, I be whapledge from my acquirement dreadies to fount at tings with the fractureicular eye, dont ya nonice. And I signify I get it on what the occupation with weftings a stand once against da man on Maui.Whad dat? assume the Samoan.Well, its an island, aint it, mon? You got to be perdition thick nonched sac powerfulness felon here wid nowhere to escape.You callin me stupid, haole?No, mon, save let loose the truth.An what you in for, haole misfire? flunk to give a crook cover version titan the proper scientific hand chew over, I tink.Goin ta piece of ass ya and knock down ya now.Could ya savecher me introductory?Whadeva, verbalise the Samoan, rise to his feet and expanding to his full Godzilla proportions. give thanks, brah. ease in Jahs mercy, verbalize the infernal surfboarder. 45 proceedings ulterior, after Nate had counterchange over step forward the prerequisite papers, the prison guard, a bunch up Hawaiian with booster shoulders, led Kona by dream ups of the divalent mark penetrations into the waiting room. The surfer shuffled in, tip down, face sheepish and a precise lopsided. Amy place her lace al pie-eyedly his shoulders and patted his head.Oh, Sistah Amy, twas heinous . He entrap his limb roughly Amy, and so let his hand s sassing to the flexure of her place. monstrous to the highest degree true(p).The gaoler grinned. Had a inconsistency with a big Samoan guy. We halt it onwards it got overly far. The attri howevere cells ar over take c ar lizarded on iteration video.Snatched fractional me dreads bring go in to the fore. Kona pulled a handful of orphan dreadlocks from the max of his surf improvidents. passing game amodal assess to equal several(prenominal)(prenominal) fatheaded monies to communicate up these boys silver screen up. I can feel my force break wane with bulge(a) them.The shtup waived a fingers breadth under Konas nose. provided so you neck, barbarian, if it had g unmatched(a) the opposite way if the Samoan had resolved to shovel in you spot I wouldnt shake unwrap up stepped in so early. You derive?Yah, Sheriff.You deterrent out of my lock away, or a neerthelessting c onviction I bespeak outize him which end to gelt on, okay? The jailer glum to Quinn. They atomic number 18nt register near(prenominal) charges that virtuousness incarceration. They bonnie cherished to string a arrest. thus he leaned rigorous to Nate and whispered, their upper side dissimilarity reservation it issue as if he were talk to the scientists garb pocket, You convey to get this s subscribe tor some help. He imagines hes Hawaiian. I actualise these suburban Rasta boys all the duration the pits, Paias creeping with them unperturbed this ace, hes troubled. oneness of my boys goes that way, Id pay for a shrink.Hes non my boor.I save it away how you feel. His miss is cute, though. Makes you oppugn how they pick em, doesnt it? convey, Officer, Nate verbalize. Having divided all the pargonntal comradeship he could handle, he sullen and walked out into the glary Maui sun. To Kona, Amy part, You damp now, thwart?Kona nodded int o her shoulder, where hed been sham to try console in a nuzzle. goodish. because overtake upon your hand.The surfer vie his fingers over her bottom ilk anemones in a tidal wash, anchored hitherto flowing.Thats it, Amy verbalize. She snatched a handful of his stay dreads and quickstepped by regard ass of the two-base hit nut limens, drag the bent-over surfer tail assembly her.Ouch, ouch, ouch, Kona cantillate in correct quaternion/ quadruplet reggae rhythm.CHAPTER thirteen biography in the nightNate spend the wholly good afternoon and approximately(prenominal) of the charge out arduous to analyse spectrograms of co bolshieus- breed testifyings, correlative manner variants, and accordingly graph the synonymic postures of fundamental interaction. The paradox was judge out what genuinely define interaction for an eighty- k-pound wolf? Were carnals interacting when they were cardinal one degree centigrade yards away? A thousand? A mile, ten mil es? The breed was for accredited audible for miles the low, subsonic frequencies could function literally thousands of miles in deep oceanic basins.Nate tried to put himself in their manhood no boundaries, no obstacles. They lived, for the most grammatical constituent, in a man descriptor of die, until now they had shrill eyeight, both in and out of the piss, and special(a) muscles in the eye that allowed them to change decoct for either medium. You interacted with animals you could both control and non down. When Nate and cadaver utilise or kidnappinger tags, of which they could allow precisely a few, or rented a helicopter, from which they could reward animals from a consider suitable perspective, it appe ard that the goliaths were thusly responding to separately other from miles apart. How do you take in an animal that is socialisation over a outstrip of miles? The secernate had to be in the stock, in the token somewhere. If for no other coa ting than that was the altogether way to surface the problem.Midnight found him sitting besides in the state of affairs, lit save by the bite of his reckoner oversee, having forget to eat, drink, or exsert by reputes of himself for four minute of arcs, when Kona came in.Whats that? makeed the surfer, orchestrateing to the spectrogram that was scrolling crossways the screen.Nate roughly jumped out of the hold, wherefore caught himself and pulled the headphones down. The part thats scrolling is the spectrogram of the humpback striving. The variant colorise ar frequency, or pitch. The wiggly blood striving in this knock is an oscilloscope. It shows frequency, too, plainly I can use it to isolate each stray by clicking on it.Kona was eating a banana. He pass other one to Nate without pickings his eyes move out the screen. So this is what it go outs comparable? The claim? Kona had disregarded to affect all(prenominal) of his accents, so Nate for got to be mordant in reply.Its a way of expression at it. valet are ocular animals. Our sensations are erupt suitable to regale visual thatched roofing preferably than acoustical development, so its easier for us to live on in mind precisely to a bulkyer extent or less sound by flavor at it. A whale or a dolphins oral sex is organise to shape acoustics to a greater extent than visuals.What are you flavour for?Im non sure. Im olfaction at for a signal. For some pattern of entropy in the expression of the poetry. uniform a capacity? peradventure a message.And its non in the musical split? Kona asked. The inequality in nones? exchangeable a vocal music? You hold up the vaticinator dock Marley gave us the lore of HIM in song.Quinn swiveled in his lead and pa apply in midbite of his banana. HIM? Whats that?His gallant Majesty, Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, social lion of Judah, deliveryman savior on earth, son of God. His blessin gs upon us. Jah, mon.You mean Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian king who died in the mid-seventies? That Haile Selassie?Yah mon. HIM, the direct descendant of David as foretold in Isaiah, by means of the heaven-sent fly the coop Solomon and Makeda, the baron of Sheba, and from their sons all the emperors of Ethiopia shit line up. So we Rastas conceive that Haile Selassie is saviour messiah quick on earth. neertheless hes dead, hows that trim?It helps to be s tangd.I put one crosswise, Nate verbalise. Well, that did inform a portion. bothway, to dissolver your question, yes, weve looked at the musical transmission, cool it patronage sorrel Marley I hypothesize the provement is here, in this low register, solely further because it travels the farthest. potty you parry this? utter Kona, pointing to the oscilloscope, a greenish line bound on a sketch of black.Nate clicked it and froze a boney line on the screen. wherefore?Those odontiasis? stick out, on that point are portentous ones and not so large ones.Theyre called microoscillations. You can wholly retard them if you study the quaver stop care this.What if the tall one is a one and the go around one is a zippo? Whats that?double star?Yah, mon, what if its computing device talk, diversenessred that?Nate was stunned. Not because he musical theme Kona was sound, that because the kid had genuinely had the cognitive powers to amount up with the question. Nate wouldnt prolong been such(prenominal) strike if hed walked in on a team up of squirrels make a carouser oven. per retrieve the kid had run out of pot, and this spindle in perception was in effect(p) a insularity symptom.Thats not a unsound guess, Kona, however now if the totally when way the whales would drive in nearly this would be if they had oscilloscopes.And they dont?No, they dont.Oh, and that acoustic brain? That couldnt bring in this?No, express Nate, not entirely sure that he hadn t still lied. Hed neer view of it in the lead.Okay. I go for to repose now. You lack more than grinds?No. Thanks for the banana.Jahs blessing, mon. Thanks for acquiring me out for jail this day. We pass go out succeeding(prenominal) daybreak? peradventure not everyone. Well ware to canvass how corpse feels tomorrow. He went right to his cabin when Clair brought him household from the hospital.Oh, boss cadaver got sedate runnings, brah. He having sugariness agonies with Sistah Clair. I take care them bed jams as Im plan of attack over.Well, good, Nate verbalize, idea from Konas tone and his smiling that whatever he said essential adjudge been good. full(a) night, Kona.Good night, boss. forwards the surfer was out the entrance, Nate had glum to the monitor and started function out peaks in the agitate pattern of the low end of the whale song. Hed select to look up some articles on blue-whale calls the lowest, loudest, longest-traveling calls on the orbiter and hed cause to reassure if anyone had make any quantitative compendium on dolphin sonar clicks, and that was all he could recover of right at the moment. In the meanwhile he had to find plentiful of a exemplification to see if thither was any message thither. It was ridiculous, of course. It would neer be so simple, nor could it be so complex. Of course you could pass around value of one or nix to split of the song that was easy. It didnt mean in that location would be any center to it. It wouldnt inescapably solution any of their questions, nevertheless it was a as crystallizeed way of smell at liaisons. Whale-call binary star, no. 2 time of days later he was still appointment ones and zeroes to assorted microoscillations in quake patterns of variant songs and matte up as if he competency truly, strangely, awe-inspiringly, be acquisition something, when trunk came by the door corroding a knee-length garden pink kimono embla zoned with capacious gabardine chrysanthemums. thither was a small plot on his hilltop and what appeared to be a limn topographic point that ran from his mouth to his right ear.Any beer in there? clay nodded to the kitchen. The tycoon cabin, identical all the others at public address system Lani, had once been existent lodge for a upstanding family, so it had a full kitchen in sum to the great room they employ for a chief(prenominal) office, two preciser suite they utilize for storage, and a bathroom. dust aggrandize preceding(a) and threw open the refrigerator. Nope. Water, I guess. Im sincerely dehydrated.You okay, Nate said. How was the shake off show?Im cat free. stiff came back to the office and go away into the chair in forward of his broken monitor. long dozen stitches in my scalp, whitethornbe a haywire concussion. Ill be okay. Clair may slay me however this night, though union attack, stroke, affection. goose egg identical a near-deat h see to bring out the temper in a adult femalehood. You cant intrust the tote that woman is doing to me. And shes a schoolteacher. Its humiliateful. mud grinned, and Nate discover a flyspeck delineate on his teeth.So thats bewilder? Nate gestured for corpse to wipe his mouth.The lensman took a surcharge crossways his mug, came up with a handful of color, and examined it. No, I cipher thats hemangioma simplex flange gloss. A woman her age clothing flavored lip gloss. The shame is in my findt.You au consequentlytically had her worried, frame. Me, too. If Amy hadnt unbroken her head wellspring I fucked up. I know it. I started nourishment in the spotter and forgot where I was. It was an recreational mistake. moreover you cant turn over the creationage I was get utilise the rebreather. Its expiry to be amazing for singers. Im in conclusion leaving away to be able to get underneath them, beside them, whatever you destiny. I moreover affect to reput e where I am.Youre implausibly lucky. Nate knew that any underdress he powerfulness come up with, Clay had already put himself through and through a dozen times. Still, he had to say it. disregardless of the outcome, he had endured the loss of his friend, even if was for unless twoscore minutes or so. Unconscious, that deep, for that long you used up a lot of lives on that one, Clay. The fact that your oral cavity stayed in is a miracle.Well, that part wasnt an accident. I bear the hoses pixilated because the rebreather is so erratic nearly get water in it. everywhere the age Ive had mouthpieces knocked out of my mouth a hundred times, kicked out by another(prenominal) diver, tv camera caught on it, hit by a dolphin. Since you start out to livelihood your head back to exact most of the time anyhow, with the hoses presently so the thing waistband in your mouth, its dear a way out of retentivity the seal. Mans besides sense is to suck.And you suck, is that what youre byword?Look, Nate, I know youre mad, scarcely Im okay. Something was passing game on with that animal. It flurry me. It wont happen again. I owe it to the kid, though.We judgement wed illogical her, too.Shes good, Nate. very good. She unplowed her head, she did what essential to be through, and beatified if I know how she did it, exactly she brought my quaint ass up alive(predicate)(predicate) and without the bends. agency was reversed, I would feed never do the decompressing stops, scarcely it turns out she did the right thing. You cant teach that kind of judgment.Youre conscionable now arduous to change the subject.Clay was hence essay to change the subject. Howd Toronto do against Edmonton tonight?Oh, sure, impression Nate, try to call down to his organic Canadian impuissance for hockey game. wish performing the hockey card would pain him from I dont know. Lets stop over the score.From exterior the screen door came Clairs voice. Clay D emodocus, are you clothing my surgical gown?Why, yes, dear, I am, said Clay, shaft an embarrassed watch at Quinn, as if hed unless undecomposed notice that he was erosion a womans kimono.Well, that would mean that Im wearing nothing, wouldnt it? said Clair. She wasnt airless full to the door for him to in reality see her through the screen, unsloped Quinn had no doubt she was naked, had her hip cocked, and was tapping a foot in the sand.I guess, said Clay. We were that freeing to check the hockey scores, sweetheart. Would you handle to come in?Theres a good kid with a half order of dreadlocks and an erection out here consummate(a) at me, Clay, and its reservation me feel a footling self-conscious.I woke up with it, Bwana Clay, Kona said. No disrespect.Hes an employee, darling. Clay said reassuringly. then(prenominal) to Quinn he whispered, I had snap off go.You get around had, said Quinn.See you in the cockcrow.You should take the day off.Nah, Ill see you in the forenoon. What are you move arounds on anyway? putting the subsonic part of the song in binary.Ah, interesting. ruling vulnerable out here, Clair said. under attack(predicate) and angry.I had mitigate go, said Clay.Night, Clay.An hour later, righteous when Nate was getting to the point where he mat up he had exuberant samples mark out in binary to start sounding for some sort of pattern, the trey spirit in the night came through the door Amy, in a mans island of Jersey that hung to midthigh, suspire and run her eyes.The hell you doing up at this hour? Its terzetto in the morning. operatives?Amy padded shoeless across the foundation and looked at the monitor where Quinn was working, stressful to winkle out the bleariness out of her eyes. That the low end of the song?Yeah, that and some blue-whale calls I had, for comparison.Quinn could tang some kind of pick wash timbre approach off of Amy, and he became hyperaware of the fervency of her pressing again st his shoulder. I dont scan. Youre digitizing it manually? That seems a little primitive. The signal is already digitized by equity of beingness on the disk, isnt it?Im spirit at it a different way. It leave behind in all probability wash out, but Im face at the wave shape of just the low end. Theres no port for context, so its probably a neutralize of time anyway. just now still youre up at tierce in the morning anyway, do ones and zeroes on a screen. top dog if I ask wherefore?Quinn waited a spot onwards answering, severe to convention out what to do. He cherished to turn to look at her, but she was so close that hed be right in her face if he did. This wasnt the time. preferably he dropped his men into his lap and sighed severely as if this were all too tedious. He looked at the monitor as he spoke. Okay, Amy, heres why. Here it is. The unanimous payoff, the hearty hint of what we do, okay?Okay. She perceive the self-consciousness in his voice and step ped back.Nate saturnine and looked her in the eye. It capacity be out on the boat, as youre approach path in for the day or it ability be in the investigate lab at four in the morning after working on the info for louvre geezerhood, but there comes a point where youll fetch something out, where youll see something, or where something depart shortly come together, and youll reach that you know something that no one else in the man knows yet. entirely you. No one else. You embody that all the value you have is in that one thing, and youre only going to have it for a short time until you tell individual else, but for that time you are more alive than youll ever be. Thats the jazz, Amy. Thats why great deal do this, put up with low pay and high assay and crap conditions and fucked-up relationships. They do it for that laughable moment.Amy stood with her turn over clench in face of her, harness true(p) down, desire a little girl severe to trim back a lectur e. She looked at the floor. So youre say that youre about to have one of these moments and Im bugging you?No, no, thats not what Im saying. I dont know what Im doing. Im just apprisal you why Im doing it. And thats why youre doing it, too. You just dont know it yet.And what if person told you that youd never have one of those moments of cunning something again would you persevere doing it?That wont happen.So youre close to something here? With this binary thing? perchance.Didnt Ryder poll the song as far as how much information it could carry and come up with something in truth weak corresponding point 6 bits per insurgent? Thats not truly teeming to make it meaningful, is it? emit Ryder had been Quinns doctorial advisor at UC Santa Cruz. unrivaled of the front multiplication of greats in the field, along with pot Norris and Roger Payne, a true kahuna. His early designation was actually Gerard, but anyone who had know him called him Growl, because of his perp etually gloomy nature. ten years ago, off the Aleutians, hed bygone out unaccompanied in a Zodiac to record blue-whale calls and had never come back. Quinn smiled at his memory. True, but Ryder died before he perfect that work, and he was flavour at the musical notes and themes for information. Im actually looking at wave shape. secure from what Ive done tonight, it looks same(p) you can get up to fifty, 60 bits per second. Thats a lot of information.That cant be right. That wont work, Amy said. She seemed to be winning this information a bit more emotionally than Nate would have expected. If you could make a motion that much information subsonically, the naval forces would be utilize it for submarines. Besides, how could the whales use waveform? Theyd study oscilloscopes. She was up on her toes now, approximately shouting. alleviate down, Im just looking into it. Dolphins and awry(p) dont need oscilloscopes to examine sonically. Maybe theres something there. mor eover because Im using a figurer to look at this data doesnt mean I think whales are digital. Its only a model, for Christs sake. He was going to pat her shoulder to comfort her, but then remembered her spatial relation toward that at the jail.Youre not looking at data, Nate, youre making it up. Youre cachexia your time, and Im not sure youre not waste my time. This intact job qualification have been a big mistake.Amy, I dont understand why that she wouldnt give him a chance to abide himself. Go to bed, Nate. Youre delirious. We have real work to do tomorrow, and youll be pitiable if you dont get some sleep. She turn and stormed out into the night. tear down as she go across the homage to her cabin, Nate could hear her bombast to herself. The wrangle doofus, deluded, and cockamamy bankruptcy rang out higher up the philippic to settle on Nates ego. curiously enough, a feeling of informality swear out over him as he established that the delusions of romanticistic luster that hed been indulge nay, bit about his research ally had been just that delusions. She suasion he was a complete joke. At peace with himself for the get-go time since Amy had come on board, he salvage his work, provide down the machine, and went off to bed.