Cursed Plato

"Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled--the delicious

death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the

crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that

leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died

embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into

Plao's honey head, and sweetly perished there?"


-Herman Melville, Moby Dick