the white

It should be here noted, and so should shall be, that Moby Dick is a called a great marble tombstone afloat on the seas and called also the mask behind which all evil plays its part in the drama, an' too, Moby Dick is spotted (in the 1956 motion picture version of the old tale) at the Bikini Atoll, where the atom bomb was tested in the early days of the end of time (being so called because the increase in atmospheric radioactive isotopes means that zero years in carbon dating is at 1952). Nature is not red in tooth and claw, but rather white in the maws of suns and the blinding snows of farthest Antarctic deserts and moonscaped voids and the white of nothing-not-even-darkness-itself.