"And I know you can't answer me. Speak with one voice or anything. Because you're not one voice. You're all of them. Hobbes's whale, not Sinbad's or Jonah's, or Munchhausen's. And Hobbes whale was just a symbol. It stood for the power of masses. A billion living things making up one huge entity"
利维坦之所以成为集体意识的象征,是因为:词典编纂者在近代早期,人们认为"利维坦"已与希伯来语文字lavah,意为“耦合、连接或联结”,以及thannin意为“蛇或龙”。[7]在威斯敏斯特议会在《圣经》的注释中,译员们认为这个生物之所以用这些词根来命名,“是因为他的大意不是一个单独的生物,而是一群不同的人结合在一起;或者是因为他的鳞片是封闭的,或者是紧密地挤压在一起的。