When the captain stood, silent, at the rail, I finally had to ask: "Orders, Captain?"
"Why are we here, Ishmael?"
"Captain?"
"What am I chasing? So I catch the whale -- what then? Is man ever satisfied? Will I go on forever, always with a bigger whale on the horizon? Is the great whale a metaphor for man's unending striving? Nay, lad. Let him go, take in the sea breeze, and let's turn toward home. I am at peace, Ishmael."
the only melville I ever read is some letters to hawthorne I'M SORRY
When the captain stood, silent, at the rail, I finally had to ask: "Orders, Captain?"
"Why are we here, Ishmael?"
"Captain?"
"What am I chasing? So I catch the whale -- what then? Is man ever satisfied? Will I go on forever, always with a bigger whale on the horizon? Is the great whale a metaphor for man's unending striving? Nay, lad. Let him go, take in the sea breeze, and let's turn toward home. I am at peace, Ishmael."