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To: goldstategop

"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. He piled
upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by
his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he
burst his hot heart's shell upon it." -Melville (Moby Dick)


They are as mad as Ahab. And the same fate awaits them.


7 posted on 11/29/2005 11:57:23 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Names Ash Housewares

"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. He piled
upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by
his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he
burst his hot heart's shell upon it." -Melville (Moby Dick)


They are as mad as Ahab. And the same fate awaits them.


*Thank you for quoting from America's literary treasure MOBY DICK written by America's Shakespeare Herman Melville.


33 posted on 11/30/2005 3:28:23 AM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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