Their unified suffering restores love, which is now directed "
Sunwards" so that the eroticized body becomes only a trace, superseded by the worshipful body that itself retains a trace of God's action within history and recognizes it by turning toward God's love (l.
For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying--the turning
sunwards of the head, and so expiring--that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.