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What
the
white
whale
was
to
Ahab
,
has
been
hinted
;
what
,
at
times
,
he
was
to
me
,
as
yet
remains
unsaid
.
Aside
from
those
more
obvious
considerations
touching
Moby
Dick
,
which
could
not
but
occasionally
awaken
in
any
man
's
soul
some
alarm
,
there
was
another
thought
,
or
rather
vague
,
nameless
horror
concerning
him
,
which
at
times
by
its
intensity
completely
overpowered
all
the
rest
;
and
yet
so
mystical
and
well
nigh
ineffable
was
it
,
that
I
almost
despair
of
putting
it
in
a
comprehensible
form
.
It
was
the
whiteness
of
the
whale
that
above
all
things
appalled
me
.
But
how
can
I
hope
to
explain
myself
here
;
and
yet
,
in
some
dim
,
random
way
,
explain
myself
I
must
,
else
all
these
chapters
might
be
naught
.
Though
in
many
natural
objects
,
whiteness
refiningly
enhances
beauty
,
as
if
imparting
some
special
virtue
of
its
own
,
as
in
marbles
,
japonicas
,
and
pearls
;
and
though
various
nations
have
in
some
way
recognised
a
certain
royal
preeminence
in
this
hue
;
even
the
barbaric
,
grand
old
kings
of
Pegu
placing
the
title
"
Lord
of
the
White
Elephants
"
above
all
their
other
magniloquent
ascriptions
of
dominion
;
and
the
modern
kings
of
Siam
unfurling
the
same
snow-white
quadruped
in
the
royal
standard
;
and
the
Hanoverian
flag
bearing
the
one
figure
of
a
snow-white
charger
;
and
the
great
Austrian
Empire
,
Caesarian
,
heir
to
overlording
Rome
,
having
for
the
imperial
color
the
same
imperial
hue
;
and
though
this
pre-eminence
in
it
applies
to
the
human
race
itself
,
giving
the
white
man
ideal
mastership
over
every
dusky
tribe
;
and
though
,
besides
,
all
this
,
whiteness
has
been
even
made
significant
of
gladness
,
for
among
the
Romans
a
white
stone
marked
a
joyful
day
;
and
though
in
other
mortal
sympathies
and
symbolizings
,
this
same
hue
is
made
the
emblem
of
many
touching
,
noble
things
--
the
innocence
of
brides
,
the
benignity
of
age
;
though
among
the
Red
Men
of
America
the
giving
of
the
white
belt
of
wampum
was
the
deepest
pledge
of
honor
;
though
in
many
climes
,
whiteness
typifies
the
majesty
of
Justice
in
the
ermine
of
the
Judge
,
and
contributes
to
the
daily
state
of
kings
and
queens
drawn
by
milk-white
steeds
;
though
even
in
the
higher
mysteries
of
the
most
august
religions
it
has
been
made
the
symbol
of
the
divine
spotlessness
and
power
;
by
the
Persian
fire
worshippers
,
the
white
forked
flame
being
held
the
holiest
on
the
altar
;
and
in
the
Greek
mythologies
,
Great
Jove
himself
being
made
incarnate
in
a
snow-white
bull
;
and
though
to
the
noble
Iroquois
,
the
midwinter
sacrifice
of
the
sacred
White
Dog
was
by
far
the
holiest
festival
of
their
theology
,
that
spotless
,
faithful
creature
being
held
the
purest
envoy
they
could
send
to
the
Great
Spirit
with
the
annual
tidings
of
their
own
fidelity
;
and
though
directly
from
the
Latin
word
for
white
,
all
Christian
priests
derive
the
name
of
one
part
of
their
sacred
vesture
,
the
alb
or
tunic
,
worn
beneath
the
cassock
;
and
though
among
the
holy
pomps
of
the
Romish
faith
,
white
is
specially
employed
in
the
celebration
of
the
Passion
of
our
Lord
;
though
in
the
Vision
of
St.
John
,
white
robes
are
given
to
the
redeemed
,
and
the
four-and-twenty
elders
stand
clothed
in
white
before
the
great-white
throne
,
and
the
Holy
One
that
sitteth
there
white
like
wool
;
yet
for
all
these
accumulated
associations
,
with
whatever
is
sweet
,
and
honorable
,
and
sublime
,
there
yet
lurks
an
elusive
something
in
the
innermost
idea
of
this
hue
,
which
strikes
more
of
panic
to
the
soul
than
that
redness
which
affrights
in
blood
.
This
elusive
quality
it
is
,
which
causes
the
thought
of
whiteness
,
when
divorced
from
more
kindly
associations
,
and
coupled
with
any
object
terrible
in
itself
,
to
heighten
that
terror
to
the
furthest
bounds
.
Witness
the
white
bear
of
the
poles
,
and
the
white
shark
of
the
tropics
;
what
but
their
smooth
,
flaky
whiteness
makes
them
the
transcendent
horrors
they
are
?
That
ghastly
whiteness
it
is
which
imparts
such
an
abhorrent
mildness
,
even
more
loathsome
than
terrific
,
to
the
dumb
gloating
of
their
aspect
.
So
that
not
the
fierce-fanged
tiger
in
his
heraldic
coat
can
so
stagger
courage
as
the
white-shrouded
bear
or
shark
.
As
for
the
white
shark
,
the
white
gliding
ghostliness
of
repose
in
that
creature
,
when
beheld
in
his
ordinary
moods
,
strangely
tallies
with
the
same
quality
in
the
Polar
quadruped
.
This
peculiarity
is
most
vividly
hit
by
the
French
in
the
name
they
bestow
upon
that
fish
.
The
Romish
mass
for
the
dead
begins
with
"
Requiem
eternam
"
(
eternal
rest
)
,
whence
Requiem
denominating
the
mass
itself
,
and
any
other
funeral
music
.
Now
,
in
allusion
to
the
white
,
silent
stillness
of
death
in
this
shark
,
and
the
mild
deadliness
of
his
habits
,
the
French
call
him
Requin
.
Bethink
thee
of
the
albatross
,
whence
come
those
clouds
of
spiritual
wonderment
and
pale
dread
,
in
which
that
white
phantom
sails
in
all
imaginations
?
Not
Coleridge
first
threw
that
spell
;
but
God
's
great
,
unflattering
laureate
,
Nature
.
I
assert
,
then
,
that
in
the
wondrous
bodily
whiteness
of
the
bird
chiefly
lurks
the
secret
of
the
spell
;
a
truth
the
more
evinced
in
this
,
that
by
a
solecism
of
terms
there
are
birds
called
grey
albatrosses
;
and
these
I
have
frequently
seen
,
but
never
with
such
emotions
as
when
I
beheld
the
Antarctic
fowl
.
But
how
had
the
mystic
thing
been
caught
?
Whisper
it
not
,
and
I
will
tell
;
with
a
treacherous
hook
and
line
,
as
the
fowl
floated
on
the
sea
.
At
last
the
Captain
made
a
postman
of
it
;
tying
a
lettered
,
leathern
tally
round
its
neck
,
with
the
ship
's
time
and
place
;
and
then
letting
it
escape
.
But
I
doubt
not
,
that
leathern
tally
,
meant
for
man
,
was
taken
off
in
Heaven
,
when
the
white
fowl
flew
to
join
the
wing-folding
,
the
invoking
,
and
adoring
cherubim
!
