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Ahab's death, being hung by the very harpoon he sent into Moby Dick and then dragged deep into the depths with him, physically manifesting his spiritual consumption with the beast, is my favoruite lit death.
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>>25115199
The last 2/3 chapters of the book are truly a blessing to read. The culmination of all the warnings so far: the albatross, Stubb and Elijah and he choosed to keep going.
>>25115236
You're are the retarted newfag here, that book is /lit/ core
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>>25115199
My favorite part is that when he is pulled down, he is pulled "voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim"
This simile is literally 7 words, yet it so concisely and perfectly consummates Ahab's end. All his power has come from his voice, all his grand speeches on the Deck that worked the men of the Pequod up into idolatrous fervor, every soliloquy that he gave to justify his mad quest. Ahab's voice was his one tool, his one last bulwark of power. Yet in his final moments, the Whale takes even this from him, and the insane Captain, so consumed with rage and fanaticism, goes down not in a fit of fury, not in a yell of primordial anger, but stripped to the last, to a blank and meaningless whiteness.