I don’t wanna to seem obsessed this idea, but the act of reading truly amazes me. It’s the act of reading within reading. We are reading the literal text, and then Melville tells us to read more through imagery. “But as you come nearer to this great head, it begins to assume different aspects, according to your point of view.” (364) Melville. We have to imagine we are on the ship, walking around this whale’s head. We are told to read these imagines because it’s important to understand the bigger picture that Melville wants us to understand. He makes our job to go deeper with text and figure out all the different aspects. It will take diligent study of these images that Melville is painting for us.