AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
This line stuck out to me, esp since Melville has just been describing several real places on the map (New Bedford, Nantucket). This seems like a very strong form of imaginalism, that the imaginery is more real than than the real. Or perhaps its an indication of the incapacity of maps to capture reality; that kind of fits in with the book thematically.