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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

MOBY DICK & The Original Starbuck (MD #2)

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Calling Captain Ahab "obsessed"
is like calling Simon Wiesenthal a "hunter"

In a chapter entitled The Quarter Deck,
Ahab sermonizes to the entire crew of the whaling ship.



He impales them with a death wish
for the Great White Whale.

They respond with a blood lust for Moby Dick
and get rewarded with whiskey.

Starbuck, second-in-command to Captain Ahab, is the only dissenter:

I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance.
...Vengeance on a dumb brute that simply smote thee from blindest instinct!
Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

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