Moby Dick
what is the significance of the quote
"some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round earth itself but an empty cipher"
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With this quote, Ishmael is questioning the meaning of the world, whether or not the world speaks to us, whether or not we can comprehend it. He believes that without meaning, the earth is nothing.
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