The Daily Dick: Musings on the Relevance of Moby-Dick Today
"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 i
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Relevance of Moby-Dick Today
"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 univ
