SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...
Before hitting the high seas on a quest for the most renowned whale in literature, before introducing the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” begins on the streets of New Bedford.
“By its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe,” says Ishmael, in Chapter 42 of Herman Melville’s masterpiece. “It” is whiteness—the color of Moby-Dick, an ...
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