Meaning: Waiting, sacrifice, and enlightenment.
Depiction: Ishmael playfully hanging in the rigging on a slow day, showing off his balancing skills.
Text: Chapter 35- The Mast Head. Ishmael admits that he "kept a sorry guard" and spent his much of his watch time dreaming atop the mast.
For one, I used to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a chat with Queequeg, or anyone else off duty who I might find there; then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the topsail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at last mount to my ultimate destination.
Comments: Waiting is also a good way to describe Ishmael. He takes a very passive role of chronicler; nothing he does influences the fate of the Pequod.
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| Ishmael and Queequeg hanging out in the rigging, posted by madebyken on Tumblr, 2013. Unclear if "Ken" is the original artist- if not, I will credit here once known. |
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