American Lit
"Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous." . . . "Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then I could do the other."
posted by James Oliver | 3/20/2006 07:51:00 p.m.
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And against who, pray tell, are you seeking vengance, James?
Or is Moby Dick your reading material of choice right now?
Revenge, says Herman Melville, is an evil quest. Before you seek it out, you first dig two graves.
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