Well, none of those images came close to what Melville's prose evoked for me. And I'm afraid I found the author's prose pretentious, perhaps like what ChatGPT

Well, none of those images came close to what Melville's prose evoked for me. And I'm afraid I found the author's prose pretentious, perhaps like what ChatGPT might spit out if you asked it to write like a pompous literary critic.