I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch1 my oath, because of the dread2 in my soul. A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless3 feud4 seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.
For some time past, though at intervals6 only, the unaccompanied, secluded7 White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly frequented by the Sperm8 Whale fishermen. But not all of them knew of his existence; only a few of them, comparatively, had knowingly seen him; while the number who as yet had actually and knowingly given battle to him, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery9 circumference10, many of them adventurously11 pushing their quest along solitary12 latitudes13, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate14 length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed15 the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby Dick. It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels16 reported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or such a meridian17, a Sperm Whale of uncommon18 magnitude and malignity19, which whale, after doing great mischief20 to his assailants, has completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair presumption22, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other than Moby Dick. Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice23 in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar25 terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils26 of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause. In that way, mostly, the disastrous27 encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded.
And as for those who, previously28 hearing of the White Whale, by chance caught sight of him; in the beginning of the thing they had every one of them, almost, as boldly and fearlessly lowered for him, as for any other whale of that species. But at length, such calamities29 did ensue in these assaults-- not restricted to sprained30 wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring31 amputations--but fatal to the last degree of fatality32; those repeated disastrous repulses33, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude34 of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.
Nor did wild rumors35 of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more horrify36 the true histories of these deadly encounters. For not only do fabulous37 rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,--as the smitten38 tree gives birth to its fungi39; but, in maritime40 life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound41, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to. And as the sea surpasses the land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which sometimes circulate there. For not only are whalemen as a body unexempt from that ignorance and superstitiousness43 hereditary44 to all sailors; but of all sailors, they are by all odds45 the most directly brought into contact with whatever is appallingly46 astonishing in the sea; face to face they not only eye its greatest marvels48, but, hand to jaw49, give battle to them. Alone, in such remotest waters, that though you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a thousand shores, you would not come to any chiselled50 hearth-stone, or aught hospitable51 beneath that part of the sun; in such latitudes and longitudes52, pursuing too such a calling as he does, the whaleman is wrapped by influences all tending to make his fancy pregnant with many a mighty53 birth. No wonder, then, that ever gathering54 volume from the mere55 transit56 over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid57 hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears. So that in many cases such a panic did he finally strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had heard of the White Whale, few of those hunters were willing to encounter the perils of his jaw.
But there were still other and more vital practical influences at work. Nor even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished60 from all other species of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body. There are those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous61 enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would perhaps--either from professional inexperience, or incompetency62, or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble65 monster primitively66 pursued in the North; seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest and awe67, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling. Nor is the preeminent68 tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows69 which stem him.
And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary71 times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists-- Olassen and Povelson--declaring the Sperm Whale not only to be a consternation72 to every other creature in the sea, but also to be so incredibly ferocious73 as continually to be athirst for human blood. Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier's, were these or almost similar impressions effaced74. For in his Natural History, the Baron75 himself affirms that at sight of the Sperm Whale, all fish (sharks included) are "struck with the most lively terrors," and "often in the precipitancy of their flight dash themselves against the rocks with such violence as to cause instantaneous death." And however the general experiences in the fishery may amend76 such reports as these; yet in their full terribleness, even to the bloodthirsty item of Povelson, the superstitious42 belief in them is, in some vicissitudes77 of their vocation78, revived in the minds of the hunters.
So that overawed by the rumors and portents79 concerning him, not a few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long practised Right whalemen to embark80 in the perils of this new and daring warfare81; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lances at such an apparition82 as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man. That to attempt it, would be inevitably83 to be torn into a quick eternity84. On this head, there are some remarkable85 documents that may be consulted.
Nevertheless, some there were, who even in the face of these things were ready to give chase to Moby Dick; and a still greater number who, chancing only to hear of him distantly and vaguely86, without the specific details of any certain calamity87, and without superstitious accompaniments were sufficiently88 hardy89 not to flee from the battle if offered.
One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously90 inclined, was the unearthly conceit91 that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
Nor, credulous92 as such minds must have been, was this conceit altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability. For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged93, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his pursuers; and from time to time have originated the most curious and contradictory94 speculations95 regarding them, especially concerning the mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he transports himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant points.
It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative96 record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs97 of harpoons98 darted100 in the Greenland seas. Nor is it to be gainsaid101, that in some of these instances it has been declared that the interval5 of time between the two assaults could not have exceeded very many days. Hence, by inference, it has been believed by some whalemen, that the Nor' West Passage, so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the whale. So that here, in the real living experience of living men, the prodigies102 related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks103 of ships floated up to the surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations104 are almost fully59 equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid105 assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions106; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal107 (for immortality108 is but ubiquity in time); that though groves109 of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout110 thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception111; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.
But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power. For, it was not so much his uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales, but, as was elsewhere thrown out--a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump. These were his prominent features; the tokens whereby, even in the limitless, uncharted seas, he revealed his identity, at a long distance, to those who knew him.
The rest of his body was so streaked112, and spotted113, and marbled with the same shrouded114 hue115, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive116 appellation117 of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally118 justified119 by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding120 at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam121, all spangled with golden gleamings.
Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his deformed122 lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural terror, as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to specific accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults. More than all, his treacherous123 retreats struck more of dismay than perhaps aught else. For, when swimming before his exulting124 pursuers, with every apparent symptom of alarm, he had several times been known to turn around suddenly, and, bearing down upon them, either stave their boats to splinters, or drive them back in consternation to their ship.
Already several fatalities125 had attended his chase. But though similar disasters, however little bruited126 ashore127, were by no means unusual in the fishery; yet, in most instances, such seemed the White Whale's infernal aforethought of ferocity, that every dismembering or death that he caused, was not wholly regarded as having been inflicted128 by an unintelligent agent.
Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed129, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled130, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds131 of the whale's direful wrath132 into the serene133, exasperating134 sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
His three boats stove around him, and oars135 and men both whirling in the eddies136; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow70, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist137 at his foe58, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping138 his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower139 a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote140 him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness141 against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic142 morbidness143 he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes144, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious145 agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion146 even the modern Christians147 ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced148 in their statue devil;-- Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously149 transferring its idea to the abhorred150 white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments151; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable153 in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar154, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. Then, in darting155 at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate156, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing157 bodily laceration, but nothing more. Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish158 lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in mid63 winter that dreary159, howling Patagonian Cape21; then it was, that his torn body and gashed160 soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad. That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was a raving161 lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked162 in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified163 by his delirium164, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock. In a strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales165. And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun'sails spread, floated across the tranquil166 tropics, and, to all appearances, the old man's delirium seemed left behind him with the Cape Horn swells167, and he came forth168 from his dark den24 into the blessed light and air; even then, when he bore that firm, collected front, however pale, and issued his calm orders once again; and his mates thanked God the direful madness was now gone; even then, Ahab, in his hidden self, raved169 on. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline170 thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. Ahab's full lunacy subsided171 not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland172 gorge173. But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot174 of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished. That before living agent, now became the living instrument. If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity175, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon176 upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency177 than ever he had sanely179 brought to bear upon any one reasonable object.
This is much; yet Ahab's larger, darker, deeper part remains180 unhinted. But vain to popularize profundities181, and all truth is profound. Winding182 far down from within the very heart of this spiked183 Hotel de Cluny where we here stand--however grand and wonderful, now quit it;-- and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur184, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities185, and throned on torsoes! So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages. Wind ye down there, ye prouder, sadder souls! question that proud, sad king! A family likeness186! aye, he did beget187 ye, ye young exiled royalties188; and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come.
Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely; all my means are sane178, my motive189 and my object mad. Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun190 the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did now long dissemble; in some sort, did still. But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate. Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling, that when with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer thought him otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to the quick, with the terrible casualty which had overtaken him.
The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly ascribed to a kindred cause. And so too, all the added moodiness191 which always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the present voyage, sat brooding on his brow. Nor is it so very unlikely, that far from distrusting his fitness for another whaling voyage, on account of such dark symptoms, the calculating people of that prudent192 isle193 were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons he was all the better qualified194 and set on edge, for a pursuit so full of rage and wildness as the bloody195 hunt of whales. Gnawed196 within and scorched197 without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs198 of some incurable199 idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart99 his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling47 of all brutes200. Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally202 incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack. But be all this as it may, certain it is, that with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking203 in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched204 the ship from such a fiendish man! They were bent205 on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint. He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence206 of mere unaided virtue207 or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invulnerable jollity of indifference208 and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading209 mediocrity in Flask210. Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially64 picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge. How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old man's ire--by what evil magic their souls were possessed211, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to be--what the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way, he might have seemed the gliding great demon152 of the seas of life,-- all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go. The subterranean212 miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft213 by the ever shifting, muffled214 sound of his pick? Who does not feel the irresistible215 arm drag? What skiff in tow of a seventy-four can stand still? For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see naught216 in that brute201 but the deadliest ill.
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moodiness
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virtue
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