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


[[Howard Ashby Kranz (nonfiction)|Howard Kranz]] - thoughts?
[[Howard Ashby Kranz (nonfiction)|Howard Kranz]] - thoughts?
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* [[Neptune Slaughter]] - marine cryptid and alleged [[Supervillain (nonfiction)|supervillain]]
* [[Neptune Slaughter]] - marine cryptid and alleged [[Supervillain (nonfiction)|supervillain]]
* [[Scrimshaw abuse]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
* Essex (whaleship) (nonfiction)


== External links ==
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Latest revision as of 06:11, 8 September 2023

"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?

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Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

  • Essex (whaleship) (nonfiction)

External links

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