Fluke, Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore

For Jim Darling, Flip Nicklin,

and Meagan Jones:

extraordinary people who do

extraordinary work

Fluke (flook) 1. A stroke of good luck

2. A chance occurrence; an accident

3. A barb or barbed head, as on a harpoon

4. Either of the two horizontally flattened divisions of the tail of a whale