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11591250 No.11591250 [Reply] [Original]

He and his crew would have lived.

>> No.11591259

ANANKE

>> No.11591266

The whale took his fucking leg

>> No.11591288

He literally explains this in the quarter-deck speech, I don't understand why people don't get this. Moby-Dick is like Inception in the way everything in it is clearly explained, the fact that people still question the meaning behind things in it baffles me.

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>>11591250
Living is worth dying for.

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>>11591288
Moby-Dick is like Inception.

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>>11591250
Why didn't you just stop talking? Your credibility would have lived.

>> No.11591760

They die!? Spoilers!

>> No.11591767

>>11591250
Spoilers you fucking piece of shit! Go die!

>> No.11591779

>>11591266
Ur mum took my cock but I don't try to huck fucking harpoons forged with blood at her

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>>11591250
>to simply go on living as long as you can is a good thing

>> No.11591800

Why didn't Menelaus just find a new wife who wasn't a whore? His soldiers could've lived.

>> No.11591806

>>11591250
Because he was arrogant and angry at God. This is basically true of any person who gets suicidally crazy. Look at the Columbine shooters, their whole beef was with God and life itself.

In the quarter-deck speech, he rationalizes it by saying it's an inscrutable, impassable wall placed in front of him and that alone offends him. It's basically a larger statement on the belief that humans should be able to overcome any obstacle placed in front of them, even if they were placed there by God.

>"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."

>"Hark ye yet again, - the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.

>> No.11591871

>>11591806
damn, i need to read this book

>> No.11591895

>>11591806
>Implying that God exists
cringe