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...interpretation of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," with all its symbolic levels, remains unchanged despite the fact that a white whale has been captured off the coast of Peru, two university professors stated yesterday...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
Nabokov said that it was always dangerous to try and relate real life and real faces to fiction, and that there was no connection with a real white whale and the one in the novel...
...whale has been created by Melville, as the whale has been created by God or by genes. Facts should not interfere with interpretation--let's keep them separate...
Morrison did not think that the whale's capture was in any way spectacular...