What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains1 unsaid.
Aside from those more obvious considerations touching2 Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken3 in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity4 completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable5 was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form. It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled6 me. But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random7 way, explain myself I must, else all these chapters might be naught8.
Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue9 of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence10 in this hue11; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title "Lord of the White Elephants" above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion13; 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 joyful14 day; and though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings, this same hue is made the emblem15 of many touching, noble things-- the innocence16 of brides, the benignity17 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 majesty18 of Justice in the ermine of the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn19 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 mythologies20, Great Jove himself being made incarnate21 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 envoy22 they could send to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity23; and though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian24 priests derive25 the name of one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic26, worn beneath the cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially27 employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord; though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed28, 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 sublime29, there yet lurks30 an elusive31 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 kindly32 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 abhorrent33 mildness, even more loathsome34 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-shrouded36 bear or shark.*
*With reference to the Polar bear, it may possibly be urged by him who would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it is not the whiteness, separately regarded, which heightens the intolerable hideousness38 of that brute39; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness, it might be said, only rises from the circumstance, that the irresponsible ferociousness40 of the creature stands invested in the fleece of celestial41 innocence and love; and hence, by bringing together two such opposite emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us with so unnatural42 a contrast. But even assuming all this to be true; yet, were it not for the whiteness, you would not have that intensified43 terror.
As for the white shark, the white gliding44 ghostliness of repose45 in that creature, when beheld46 in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies47 with the same quality in the Polar quadruped. This peculiarity49 is most vividly50 hit by the French in the name they bestow51 upon that fish. The Romish mass for the dead begins with "Requiem52 eternam" (eternal rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music. Now, in allusion53 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 dread54, in which that white phantom55 sails in all imaginations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but God's great, unflattering laureate, Nature.*
*I remember the first albatross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged gale57, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch below, I ascended58 to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime. At intervals59, it arched forth60 its vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. Wondrous61 flutterings and throbbings shook it. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost in supernatural distress62. Through its inexpressible, strange eyes, methought I peeped to secrets which took hold of God. As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled waters, I had lost the miserable63 warping64 memories of traditions and of towns. Long I gazed at that prodigy65 of plumage. I cannot tell, can only hint, the things that darted66 through me then. But at last I awoke; and turning, asked a sailor what bird was this. A goney, he replied. Goney! never had heard that name before; is it conceivable that this glorious thing is utterly67 unknown to men ashore68! never! But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman's name for albatross. So that by no possibility could Coleridge's wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our deck. For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to be an albatross. Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly69 burnish70 a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
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 fowl71.
But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous72 hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea. At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern tally73 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 invoking74, and adoring cherubim!
Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger, large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a thousand monarchs75 in his lofty, overscorning carriage. He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds76 of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies. At their flaming head he westward77 trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads on the hosts of light. The flashing cascade78 of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. A most imperial and archangelical apparition79 of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic80 as a god, bluff-bowed and fearless as this mighty81 steed. Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless82 cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing83 all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils84 reddening through his cool milkiness85; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence86 and awe87. Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary88 record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and Albatross.
What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels89 and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed90 by his own kith and kin12! It is that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name he bears. The Albino is as well made as other men-- has no substantive91 deformity--and yet this mere92 aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous37 than the ugliest abortion93. Why should this be so?
Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not the less malicious94 agencies, fail to enlist95 among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible. From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice96 omitted so potent97 an auxiliary98. How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction99, the desperate White Hoods100 of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!
Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary101 experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue. It cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of the dead which most appals102 the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of consternation103 in the other world, as of mortal trepidation104 here. And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive105 hue of the shroud35 in which we wrap them. Nor even in our superstitions106 do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle107 round our phantoms108; all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog--Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his pallid109 horse.
Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize110 whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar48 apparition to the soul.
But though without dissent111 this point be fixed112, how is mortal man to account for it? To analyse it, would seem impossible. Can we, then, by the citation113 of some of those instances wherein this thing of whiteness--though for the time either wholly or in great part stripped of all direct associations calculated to impart to it aught fearful, but nevertheless, is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however modified;-- can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us to the hidden cause we seek?
Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety114 appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls. And though, doubtless, some at least of the imaginative impressions about to be presented may have been shared by most men, yet few perhaps were entirely115 conscious of them at the time, and therefore may not be able to recall them now.
Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but loosely acquainted with the peculiar character of the day, does the bare mention of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy such long, dreary116, speechless processions of slow-pacing pilgrims, down-cast and hooded117 with new-fallen snow? Or to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun118, evoke119 such an eyeless statue in the soul?
Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors120 and kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its neighbors-- the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody121? And those sublimer122 towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge56 is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, irrespective of all latitudes123 and longitudes124, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls125 us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by the gaudiest126 and yet sleepiest of sunsets? Or, to choose a wholly unsubstantial instance, purely127 addressed to the fancy, why, in reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does "the tall pale man" of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrestingly glides128 through the green of the groves-- why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping129 imps130 of the Blocksburg?
Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic131 seas; nor the tearlessness of arid132 skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide field of leaning spires133, wrenched134 cope-stones, and crosses all adroop (like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban135 avenues of house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;-- it is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest, saddest city thou can'st see. For Lima has taken the white veil; and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe136. Old as Pizarro, this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid137 pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions.
I know that, to the common apprehension138, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely139 consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality. What I mean by these two statements may perhaps be respectively elucidated140 by the following examples.
First: The mariner141, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties142; but under precisely143 similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky144 whiteness-- as if from encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming round him, then he feels a silent, superstitious145 dread; the shrouded phantom of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost; in vain the lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm they both go down; he never rests till blue water is under him again. Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, "Sir, it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me?"
Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snowhowdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness146 reigning148 at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit149 of what a fearfulness it would be to lose oneself in such inhuman150 solitudes151. Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference152 views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig153 to break the fixed trance of whiteness. Not so the sailor, beholding154 the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain155 in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace156 to his misery157, views what seems a boundless158 churchyard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.
But thou sayest, methinks this white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.
Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey-- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo159 robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness--why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright? There is no remembrance in him of any gorings of wild creatures in his green northern home, so that the strange muskiness he smells cannot recall to him anything associated with the experience of former perils162; for what knows he, this New England colt, of the black bisons of distant Oregon?
No; but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world. Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells that savage163 musk160, the rending164, goring161 bison herds are as present as to the deserted165 wild foal of the prairies, which this instant they may be trampling166 into dust.
Thus, then, the muffled167 rollings of a milky sea; the bleak168 rustlings of the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate147 shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies; all these, to Ishmael, are as the shaking of that buffalo robe to the frightened colt!
Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous--why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay169, the very veil of the Christian's Deity170; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying171 agent in things the most appalling172 to mankind.
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color; and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows--a colorless, all-color of atheism173 from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues174--every stately or lovely emblazoning-- the sweet tinges175 of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded176 velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements177 cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic178 which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge--pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful179 travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear colored and coloring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect180 around him. And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery181 hunt? ..
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