The Whiteness of the Whale

[Anonymous No.12889150]

Whiteness, a blank nothing, but intensified immensely, is the totality of experience and the noumena which our senses may only hint at. The mosaic choral insects and luminous orbs which drove Pip mad were the components of the whiteness, the dissipated lights forming a collected coherency which approached totality, God. He was not strong enough to hold this, no man is, though they try--Bulkington, the lone struggler embraced the discordant ocean and reached apotheosis, death, in the maelstrom of elements from the brow of the Pequod. Ahab sought to slay that whiteness, the harsh glare that had dogged his life with wretchedness while it had made others' so tolerable, and as no man can withstand the fire of the sun he was annihilated. Only Ishmael, who did not seek the whiteness of the world but the rainbow of its retractions, could escape the doomed seekers. God, the sun, ocean, whiteness... join them all and you'll be destroyed. Don't seek the infinite whiteness, it's a glare too terrible to hold

[Anonymous No.12889156]

>>12889150
Why is moby's art so good?

[Anonymous No.12889177]

>>12889150
The absolute best chapter of the Big D. I remember first reading as a teenager and feeling things I never expected a story about whaling to make me feel. It's like a silent ghost that creeps up upon you and gradually engulfs you in its pale shade; it still haunts me to this day, over a decade since I read the novel for the first time. >http://etcweb.princeton.edu/batke/moby/moby_042.html

[Anonymous No.12889206]

>>12889177
>The absolute best chapter of the Big D

For me, it's The Symphony

>Slowly crossing the deck from the scuttle, Ahab leaned over the side, and watched how his shadow in the water sank and sank to his gaze, the more and the more that he strove to pierce the profundity. But the lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, the cankerous thing in his soul. That glad, happy air, that winsome sky, did at last stroke and caress him; the step-mother world, so long cruel - forbidding - now threw affectionate arms round his stubborn neck, and did seem to joyously sob over him, as if over one, that however wilful and erring, she could yet find it in her heart to save and to bless. From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.

[Anonymous No.12889275]

>>12889150
As someone with an almost british pale skin: the chapter speaks to me

[Anonymous No.12889276]

>>12889156
Its shit

[Anonymous No.12889647]

>>12889276
you're shit

[Anonymous No.12891268]

For me it is the Sphinx, the best Moby-Dick chapter.

[Anonymous No.12891865]

>>12889150
I never found that cover. Which publisher is it?

[Anonymous No.12893342]

>>12889156
spermwhales only have teeth on their lower jaw

[Anonymous No.12893367]

Is there a bigger condemnation of the American reading public than the fact that Moby-Dick was a critical and commercial failure when it was first released in the US? Keep in mind that over in England it got rave reviews.

[Anonymous No.12893420]

>>12893367
>our irrelevant country clings to your garbage
heh