Ahab is the sanest of men

"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, and again and again perilous, with innumerable hazards and grievous loss of life and limb — then Ahab is the sanest of men.

Howard Kranz - thoughts?

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Neptune Slaughter - marine cryptid and alleged supervillain
• Scrimshaw abuse

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Essex (whaleship) (nonfiction)

External links

• Moby-Dick @ Wikipedia
• Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville (audiobook) @ YouTube

• Moby Dick @ Wikipedia
• Moby Dick - trailer @ YouTube
• Captain Ahab's speech, All visible objects are but as pasteboard masks @ YouTube
• Gregory Peck's best scene @ YouTube

Social media

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