Chapter 42 (The Whiteness of the Whale)
The whale as the 'heartless voids and immensities of the universe.'
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From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moby Dick has been read as God, nature, the unconscious, evil, or the inscrutable itself—a deliberately overdetermined symbol.
Chapter 86 (The Tail)
Job's leviathan invoked; the whale's hidden face like Moses's God.
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Ahab defies the corposants: 'I own thy speechless, placeless power... but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.'
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