Meaning: Illusion, dreams, and crisis.
Depiction: Daggoo, from the main-mast, spies what he believes to be a whale, but turns out to be a giant squid. We see the squid swim on one side of the boat, and the tail of a whale on the other side (where Daggoo isn't looking). The moon is visible in the sky.
Text: Chapter 59 - The Squid
It seemed not a whale; and yet is this Moby Dick? thought Daggoo. Again the phantom went down, but on re-appearing once more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod, the negro yelled out- “There! there again! there she breaches! right ahead! The White Whale, the White Whale!”
Comments: A little different from the book in that no actual whale appears in this scene, just the squid, and it takes place in morning, not evening. I included the whale as I wanted to parallel the two animals on the RWS card. No lobster, though.
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