"The lake, as i have hinted, was to a considerable depth exceedingly transparent: and as human infants while suckling will calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different lives at the time; and while yet drawing immortal nourishment, be still spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence."
Ishmael looks into the "lake" like its another world and in a sense it is. The baby suckling and living to lives is a metaphor for the whalers. However there suckling is whale hunting, they are living there but there purpose or "nourishment" is hunting whales.
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