Status Updates From Moby Dick

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain"

i’m picking this back up again, and i backtracked a bit so i could remember clearly. this book is my white whale

Ahab is just so obsessed with this poor whale, lay off him already. He’s talking to the dead sperm whale that Stubb killed, muttering about how these whales are witnesses to the greatest tragedies of the ocean, yet now this whale is dead and beheaded…