Pip: Madness and Vision

From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The little Black cabin boy Pip, abandoned in the sea, returns mad—becoming Ahab's strange double and the novel's holy fool.
Chapter 93 (The Castaway)

Pip jumps from the whaleboat and is left alone in the ocean: 'The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.'

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Chapter 125 (The Log and Line)

Ahab takes the mad Pip into his cabin: 'Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings.'

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