In 1904, they did what all good beer manufacturers do and sponsored a baseball team in the Milwaukee Brewers League. Also that year, the Worldâs Fair came to St. Louis and the company had the honour of exhibiting a massive, 24ft high bottle depicting the spring house at the brewery.
The Whale Caller by Zakes Mda is the story of a love triangle between the Whale Caller, the whale Sharisha and the alcoholic Saluni. While the story is compelling, the reader will have to dig through layer of symbolism. At times I found it fascinating at times but at other times just wearying.
The clicks hit an object and bounce back to the whale's throat and jaw and then up to the ear. The echos of the clicks and the time it takes them to return gives the whale a sound map of what surrounds it. (Click here to view a spectrogram of this click train.).