Chapter 28 (Ahab)
Ahab's first appearance on the quarter-deck: 'a man cut away from the stake,' with his ivory leg and lightning-scar.
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From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Ahab is the tragic, Promethean captain whose obsession with the white whale drives the ship to destruction.
Chapter 36 (The Quarter-Deck)
Ahab nails the doubloon to the mast and rallies the crew to hunt Moby Dick. 'I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.'
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Ahab's soliloquy: 'The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.'
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