We're old enough to have read that in school. They don't do that any more. After all, Melville is a dead white male.
Great white whale by a dead white male.
Yeah, I guess you're right. I have a library at home full of all the classics and fine literature of my youth (we call it the den to keep from sounding like snobs). If I could have gotten my son to read 1/10th of the books in that room, he'd be an Einstein. But, no, the computer's the thing. It's in there, too.