Chapter 102: Moby Dick

Ishmael talks of his visit with Tranque who has made an alter out of giant whale skeleton. The people view this skeleton as their god and when Ishmael tries to measure it he is told that "you cannot measure god." I find this very ironic because not only do the whalers, mostly Ahab, worship whales like gods, but they are unable to measure Moby Dick because they cannot measure, or capture, Moby Dick you is the main god they wish to.