Love and Prejudice

"Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them."

Moby Dick is proving to be a very insightful book. Above is a reflection from Ishmael. It arrived after he and Queequeg (the brutish man he roomed with) bonded in the evening time while looking at a book. 

The previous night Ishmael was horrified to think that he would have to share a bed with this unsavory character. But now he has gotten to know him, and having learned more about who Queequeg is, Ishmael begins to love him. And now that he loves him, his objectionable behaviors become tolerable to him.

It's amazing how a change of perspective, seen through the lens of love, can change how one sees everything.