...with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.' 'Hark ye, yet again, — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks....mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask !' ' Then follows the wild ceremony of drinking round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to...

...a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.' " ' Hark ye, yet again — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks....mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! ' " Then follows the wild ceremony of drinking round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to...

...with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous." " Hark ye, yet again, — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks....mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!" Then follows the wild ceremony of drink1ng round the capstan-head from the harpoon-sockets to confirm...

..."All visible objects, man," says Captain Ahab, "are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed — there some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask ! How can...

...broiled," to use Melville's own phrase, is best explained in Captain Ahab's own words: All visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event —...some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the moldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If a man will strike, strike through the...

...is that Moby Dick represents, against whatever is outside the wall within which mankind is hemmed. "How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall. To me, the whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there 's naught behind. But 'tis enough. He...

...yet again, — the little lotoer layer. All visible objecls, man, are but äs pasteboanl masks. Btit in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its fcatures from buhind (he unreasoning mask. If 'man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the...

...is best explained in Captain Ahab's own words: All visible objects arc but as pasteboard masks. Bur in each event — in the living act, the undoubted...some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the moldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If a man will strike, strike through the...

...monstrous proportions of evil in man and nature? The quest is described in Captain Ahab's famous speech: " 'All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks....unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the maskl How can the prisoner reach outside except by 104 thrusting through the wall? To me, the white...

...commonplace actualities." For to Ahab "all visible objects" were "but as pasteboard masks" from behind which "some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features." To him the white whale was the emblem of "outrageous strength, with inscrutable malice sinewing it";...