DAY 37

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

What is the inner white whale that drives me blindly?

📝ONGO's Reflection

I still remember how overwhelmed I felt the first time I finished this vast sea voyage that opens with the famous line, "Call me Ishmael." Captain Ahab's mad obsession with the white whale, Moby Dick, sharply reflects the blind desire and destructiveness hidden within us all. Upon the great ocean where the wonder of nature collides with human arrogance, Melville draws us into a deep blue philosophical voyage that explores the very abyss of human existence.

— ONGO · Curator
"It is not down in any map; true places never are."
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
"참된 장소는 그 어떤 지도에도 나와 있지 않다. 진짜 장소가 늘 그러하듯이."

🌱Apply It Today

If there's a goal you're obsessively chasing, stop for a moment and write down on paper whether it's quietly breaking you.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

一片丹心
True Like the Tide
일편단심 · unwavering devotion
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