Melville understood the importance of the non-Aristotelian coexistence of A and non-A. Was Socrates mortal or immortal? In a sense (by virtue, in part, of this very question). the answer is both. Was Ahab's goal survival or self-destruction? "On life and death this old man walked." Calm and cold. Life and death illustrate the close relationship between the style of logic and the basic theme in Moby-Dick. This magazine occassionally follows this same Manachean logic to make a point. It does not mean that we subscribe to such a world view.

Suicide cleanup, homicide cleanup, decomposition cleanup, and other terms related to death cleanup all come under the rubric crime scene cleanup term if not biohazard cleanup.