Moby Dick Part 2 of 2 Author:Herman Melville Part Two Of Two Parts "It is a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So spoke Melville of his masterpiece; and into his tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest of the white whale he poured all of his own youthful experience backed by a minute study of the l... more »iterature of whales and whaling. But into it also went other experiences, other reading, other insights...the "power of blackness" and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind.« less