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One of the ways in which Melville satirises the Byronic Hero in Moby Dick is to make Captain Ahab look ridiculous at times, as when Ahab finds himself in the humiliating position of having to figure out how to board another ship with his false leg. The point being however grand and powerful Ahab sees his quest he's still forced to contend with ( Read more... )

In math class, I kind of feel like Ishmael in Moby Dick; I'm there, but from the level of my participation in class discussion, you wouldn't know it. It's one of the two things I really like about the class.

So afterwards, I went to Starbuck's to-day, appropriately enough, and finished reading Moby Dick. It's a great book. I last wrote about it ( Read more... )

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