JL;DR SUMMARY In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Marine Rhyme: A Study in Comparative Literature" by Yaakov Jaffe, the essay explores comparative literature by analyzing two texts, the Biblical Shirat Ha-Yam (The Song of the Sea) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," which both deal with human interaction with the supernatural in water. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.