Yeah, it is very noticeable. Doesn't some of it also play into the idea that we're listening to an attorney arguing the case that the whaleship is a microcosm of an industrializing America? I'm not sure that we're meant to whole-heartedly admire him; or, at least, I think we're supposed to be aware that he's a bit of a huckster, and we're being sold a bag of goods.