Hey, it's Kenny Man. This is a promotion of Hey Man, the Kenny Man talks to famous people

podcasts. We got lots of famous people. Dan Patrick and Keith Oberman.

We got to worry at 99% of what we tried to do.

I'm mad at him because I know that he'll regret it, but I know that he has to leave.

Sue Bird is involved. Rex Chapman, Dan Levittard, Katie Nolan, Alison Becker. Sorry for all the

others I interviewed who I left out. Oh yeah, Soledad O'Brien. She was good. Get it on

the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Chapter 42 The Whiteness of the Whale

What the white whale was to A-hab has been hinted. What at times he was to me, as yet remains

unsaid. Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally

awaken in any man's soul some alarm. There was another thought, or rather vague, nameless

horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the

rest. And yet so mystical and well-nigh-inaffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it

in a comprehensible form. It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled

me. But how can I hope to explain myself here? And yet in some dim, random way, explain

myself I must. Else all these chapters might be not.

Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if in partying

some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, Japanicas, and pearls. And though various

nations have in some way recognized a certain royal preeminence in this hue, even the

barbaric, grand old kings of Pigu placing the title, Lord of the White Elephants, above

all their other descriptions of dominion. And the modern kings of Siam unfurling the

same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard, and the Hannavarian flag bearing the one

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