Chapter 42 (The Whiteness of the Whale)
Ishmael's famous meditation on why whiteness terrifies above all: 'a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink.'
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From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moby Dick's whiteness is the novel's central, indeterminate symbol—suggesting purity, terror, the void, and the inscrutable face of nature or God.
Chapter 41 (Moby Dick)
The legend of the whale and Ahab's lost leg; Ahab 'piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down.'
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