The Whale Watch, Chapter a Hundred and 17, the Whale Watch

"Here too, life dies sunwards, full of faith, but see no sooner dead than death whirls round the corpse and it heads some other way. O, thou dark hindo, half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate throne somewhere in the heart of these unverted seas," writes Ahab. "Yet dost thou darker half rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith? All thy unnameable interminglings float beneath me."