"God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates." I can't tell you how often this line has come back to me lately. The old man in the line above is Ahab, but for me, it is about pres. _rump. _rump's thoughts have to be the vilest, cruelest, basest thoughts imaginable. I picture this many-clawed creature living inside _rump's chest, scratching at him until he reacts in the worst possible way. But Melville speaks the truth - we create what lives inside our hearts and minds and soul. There is no way goodness exists inside a man wh
"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick." It is harder and harder to read Moby-Dick without assigning references to Pres. _rump. The line above, "truth with malice in it," particularly caught my attention. Truth should be universal, wise, and meaningful. Truth should not be specific for one person only and begin with words like, "I'm not a racist, but . . . " Whatever the meaning we place on the symbolism of the great white whale in our life
