![Moby Dick by Jack Sullivan. Oil on board, 35.2 x 50.5 cm. Collection: Butetown History & Arts Centre.](http://www.chocolatesparalucia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/moby_dick_art_jack_sullivan.jpg)
Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows – a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?