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All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event – in the living act, the undoubted deed – there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there’s naught beyond. But ’tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him\u2026 MD Ch. 36<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Alle sichtbaren Dinge, Mann, sind nichts als Pappmasken. Aber bei jedem Ereignis \u2013 beim lebendigen Handeln, der unerschrocknen Tat -, da streckt irgendein unbekanntes, aber doch vernunftbegabtes Etwas die Formen seiner Z\u00fcge hinter der vernunftlosen Maske hervor. Wenn man schlagen will, so schlage durch die Maske! Wie kann der Gefangne je nach au\u00dfen kommen, wenn er die Mauer nicht durchbricht? F\u00fcr mich, da ist der wei\u00dfe Wal nun diese Mauer, dicht an mich herangeschoben. Bisweilen denk ich, es ist nichts dahinter. Doch da ist genug. Er m\u00fcht mich; er belastet mich; ich sehe in ihm entfesselte Kraft, mit einer unergr\u00fcndlichen Arglist, die sie noch verst\u00e4rkt. Dieses unergr\u00fcndliche Etwas ist’s haupts\u00e4chlich, was ich hasse; und sei der wei\u00dfe Wal das Agens oder sei der wei\u00dfe Wal der Meister, ich werd diesen Ha\u00df an ihm auslassen\u2026 Rathjen-\u00dcbersetzung<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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