Whale, whale, whale

" We come to whales to be drawn out into the world, and yet the unpeopled sea is also a state of mind - an inner space. Our smallness, set against this sublime sea, is connected to the notion that not all the thoughts within us are accessible; that there are thoughts, in some sense, exterior to the self. Vast feelings that slide, beyond command, beneath the wakeful tending of our days. The pleasure is that we are mysterious, even to ourselves. The fabulist ocean, this inscrutable outer space whales return from, in a metaphorical sense, enchants us with our own inward enigmas. Many throughout history have figured the sea analogous to the human unconscious. "

- Rebecca Giggs in Fathoms: The World in the Whale