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Captain Ahab was supremely competent in his pursuit of Moby-Dick. | Captain Ahab was supremely competent in his pursuit of Moby-Dick. | ||
If sanity consists in reaching a goal — in the case of hunting and killing whales with small boats and harpoons a notoriously difficult goal, demanding months of hard pursuit and constant privation, alternatingly despairing and hopeful, and ever relentless — then Ahab is the sanest of men. | If sanity consists in reaching a goal — in the case of hunting and killing whales with small boats and harpoons a notoriously difficult goal, demanding months, nay years, of hard pursuit and constant privation, alternatingly despairing and hopeful, and ever relentless — then Ahab is the sanest of men. | ||
[[Howard Ashby Kranz (nonfiction)|Howard Kranz]] - thoughts? | [[Howard Ashby Kranz (nonfiction)|Howard Kranz]] - thoughts? | ||
Revision as of 12:35, 20 January 2021
"Ahab is the sanest of men" is a short essay by Karl Jones.
Ahab is the sanest of men
Captain Ahab was supremely competent in his pursuit of Moby-Dick.
If sanity consists in reaching a goal — in the case of hunting and killing whales with small boats and harpoons a notoriously difficult goal, demanding months, nay years, of hard pursuit and constant privation, alternatingly despairing and hopeful, and ever relentless — then Ahab is the sanest of men.
Howard Kranz - thoughts?
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