...purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, end less processions of the whale, and, mid most of them alL one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. CHAPTER II. THE CAEPE TB A G. I STOPPED a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm,...

...purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. CHAPTER II. THE CAEPET-BAG. I STUFFED a shirt or two into my old carpetbag, tucked it under my arm,...

...and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of...grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. And in spite of all liberties, lapses and excesses of style and fancy, we are thenceforward in a special...

...great whale himself" (p. 16), he has come to behold still more images in his "inmost soul"—"endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of them all,...grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air" (p. 16), that anticipates what he is yet to learn about the death-dealing White Whale, Moby Dick himself....

...and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of...grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. Chapter 2 THE CARPET-BAG I STUFFED a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and...

.... . two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. (p. 98) What is important here is not only the dual awareness of the"undeliverable" perils and the...

...and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of...grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. The Carpet-Bag I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for...

...phantom hand holding his. The word "phantom" recalls Ishmael's concluding vision in "Loomings" (ch. 1) of "endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of...grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air" (7). And this "procession" of whales prefigures the "rows of angels in paradise" that conclude the...

...purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. For Ahab there are no whales in the sea but Moby Dick; he hunts others grudgingly, merely to keep up...

...dreamlike image, or "conceit" as Ishmael calls it: "two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, midmost of...hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air." The fact that Ishmael's vision of the white whale occurs before he ever hears of Moby Dick can indicate...