One drawing for every page of Moby Dick

Moby Dick‘s probably my favorite book. I waffle sometimes, bringing in The Confidence Man, or Blood Meridian, but when it comes down to what purely gets my juices flowing, what I keep re-reading, what makes my blood pump, it’s Moby Dick.

And, so, imagine my excitement when I saw this: One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick. They’re wonderful in a way that these projects aren’t always. Surprising, interrogatory, and irreverent in a way I think Melville would have approved. I can’t pick a favorite — they’re all wonderful — but here’s one I just really liked:

Page 005 : …this, the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way…

And this:

Page 035 : What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

And this:

Page 044 : “And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead…”