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Ahab and Jezebel Revisited: The Netanyahu Parallel
In Ahab and Jezebel’s Israel, the prophets were hunted, exiled, or killed. Jezebel’s efforts to silence truth-tellers ensured ...
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“White whale! Holy Grail!”: How the epic tale of Moby-Dick inspired Mastodon’s greatest album
“The story of Moby-Dick paralleled the lives of the four dudes in Mastodon so much, [that] it was too easy for us to pick and ...
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London house where Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick goes on sale
According to selling agent Wetherell, other lodgers Captain George Pollard Junior and Captain Archibald Buchanan inspired the character of Captain Ahab, the protagonist in Moby-Dick. During a ...
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Moby Dick
"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...
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A celebrated novelist grapples with “Moby-Dick”
Her version is set two decades later, in 1861, at the start of the American civil war. Captain Ahab is reimagined as Captain Seneca, a free black man. (“My war is not with the Confederate ...