In the eighty-sixth chapter of Herman Mellville’s Moby Dick, after describing the sperm whale’s tail, Ishmael states that he still has an “inability to express it” (Melville, 366) and that even after dissecting a whale, he “know[s the whale] not, and never will” (Melville, 367).  There is a similar instance in the … Continue reading The “true” Moby Dick?