Moby-Dick :: Chapter 42 :: The Whiteness of the Whale

Mister Ishmael ~

Writer's Dispair

He wonders--
Why am I writing this down?
How can I but gain the reader's ear
if only through pity
that what I am trying to say
is worth saying
even if I am
unmatched to the task
and horrible in the delivery.

But the message is mightier than I
thus I must write even if
to only write around
as best I can
the most obsure,
hardly able to hold onto,
sometimes I see it and
sometimes I don't,
yet I write
I write

The life of man is pitiful--
writer's write to make it
less pitiful I suppose.

Chapter XLII. The Whiteness of the Whale.

Thus the comparisons of white.

Trust Your Journey (tm)

~ ijil Rainbow Hawk Giver

* original quote, coined word, or phrase by ijil RHG