The Virtues of Reading Moby Dick

The challenge of reading Moby Dick is having a comfort in not knowing and being someone who can sit with dissatisfaction or sit with inconclusiveness. Herman Melville writes again and again in his works that no grand cathedrals can ever be finished in the lifetime of their architect. Where does your cathedral lie? That's not for me or anyone else to say, that's for you but the odds are you will have to seek it out as Melville writes in Moby Dick,. It is not down in any map, true places never are.