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The Whiteness of The Whale

           MuchthesameisitwiththebackwoodsmanoftheWest,whowithcomparativeindifferenceviewsanunboundedprairiesheetedwithdrivensnow,noshadowoftreeortwigtobreakthefixedtranceofwhiteness.Notsothesailor,beholdingthesceneryoftheAntarcticseas;whereattimes,bysomeinfernaltrickoflegerdemaininthepowersoffrostandair,he,shiveringandhalfshipwrecked,insteadofrainbowsspeakinghopeandsolacetohismisery,viewswhatseemsaboundlesschurchyardgrinninguponhimwithitsleanicemonumentsandsplinteredcrosses.

           Butthousayest,methinksthatwhite-leadchapteraboutwhitenessisbutawhiteflaghungoutfromacravensoul;thousurrenderesttoahypo,Ishmael.

           Tellme,whythisstrongyoungcolt,foaledinsomepeacefulvalleyofVermont,farremovedfromallbeastsofpreywhyisitthatuponthesunniestday,ifyoubutshakeafreshbuffalorobebehindhim,sothathecannotevenseeit,butonlysmellsitswildanimalmuskinesswhywillhestart,snort,andwithburstingeyespawthegroundinphrensiesofaffright?Thereisnoremembranceinhimofanygoringsofwildcreaturesinhisgreennorthernhome,sothatthestrangemuskinesshesmellscannotrecalltohimanythingassociatedwiththeexperienceofformerperils;forwhatknowshe,thisNewEnglandcolt,oftheblackbisonsofdistantOregon?

           No;butherethoubeholdesteveninadumbbrute,theinstinctoftheknowledgeofthedemonismintheworld.ThoughthousandsofmilesfromOregon,stillwhenhesmellsthatsavagemusk,therending,goringbisonherdsareaspresentastothedesertedwildfoaloftheprairies,whichthisinstanttheymaybetramplingintodust.

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