"how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful chaldee of the sperm whale's brow"
Melville puts a sort of fabled legend to the whale by comparing its prow to hieroglyphics. Is this why the men are obsessed with whaling. Not because of the money in it but for the glory of discovering the meaning of the whale. Moby Dick is captain Ahabs hieroglyphs.
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