As Ishmael floats helplessly atop the ocean deep, he becomes the stuff of Cosmicism - a strikingly lonely image of humanity adrift in a universe neither good nor evil. Death ends their misunderstanding, and negates their madness. The true madness of man is that of trying to apply a reasonableness to an unreasonable cosmos.
Fact or fiction, could it be that the change of Hades from a land of the living to the land of the dead in ancient mythology parallel a real underworld location?
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