Chapter 36 (The Quarter-Deck)
'All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks... If man will strike, strike through the mask!' Ahab's defining philosophical declaration.
Read in Books4Free →Pasteboard Masks Speech
From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Ahab's metaphysical manifesto: visible reality is a mask hiding a malignant agent, and he will strike through it.
Read or Listen to Moby Dick on Books4Free
Every chapter free to read. Free audio narration on the opening chapter. Plus an AI study assistant that knows the book.
Open in Books4Free →