Meaning: Speed, progress, sudden changes; news swiftly traveling.
Depiction: The Pequod swiftly passes the first ship it encounters (the Albatross), a rusted ship with tattered sails. The Albatross' captain is seen on its deck shouting as his speaking trumpet falls into the sea. Ahab calls to him as the Pequod flies by. The eight harpoons of the suit are protruding from the ship's prow.
Text: Chapter 52- The Albatross
But taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet, and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed—“Ahoy there! This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean! and this time three years, if I am not at home, tell them to address them to ——”
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Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.
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Comments: It would be so easy to cheat with this one and just show eight harpoons over the ocean! But why do that when there's a 500+ page book to draw from? Perhaps I will think of a more apt scene later, but I like the faith and optimism of "Round the world," even if Ishmael isn't persuaded by it.
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