“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
— Moby-Dick, Chapter 12
— Moby-Dick, Chapter 12
The Moby-Dick Bible: A Scripture of Salt and Ink
Moby-Dick is vast. Within its pages, there are storms and sermons, laughter, silence, and the long ache of meaning. It’s a book that holds everything: the sacred and the profane, the celestial and the sea-soaked.
The Moby-Dick Bible begins with a newly written verse in Melville’s voice—strange, solemn, searching. Then it finds a passage from the book that speaks to what you’ve asked. What are you looking for?
The feeling of Tuesday afternoons? The nature of regret? Whether cats know they’re being annoying?
Ask the Whale. It may answer.