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Melville wants us to understand the nature of truth is a world of lies. It remains pure and significant but it is seen in brief and incomplete flashes, it order to show us a deeper reality of life.
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When I read this it makes me think of illusions, obsession, and a lingering presence of something/someone powerful. The steps in the sentence go from being deeply captivated by someone--the story coming to an end--to it being a dream? Similar to Moby dick regarding the presense of the whale and Ahabs obsession with finding it. Tangled up with Ishmael and following Ahab through the journey, but when the book ended, the "spell" was over and everything was gone, but Ishmael.