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“An excellent Moby Dick analogy regarding what’s going on today.”  Admin

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s story (1851) about Ahab, the obsessed captain of the 19th century whaling ship, the Pequod, is one of the best American novels ever written. Melville did not live to see or enjoy its success but his book gradually became appreciated for its vast wonders in the years since. It is a complex book with countless interpretations but it is a timeless tale, exceptionally relevant today.

While his crew has signed up for a whaling expedition from which they will all profit, Ahab announces to the men after days at sea that they are going to instead search for the legendary, rare and somewhat deformed white whale that had bitten off his leg on a previous expedition. This particular whale is ferocious and seems to have an almost human temperament; it fights viciously against the men and boats that try to kill it with their harpoons. Ahab is bent upon destroying the creature that humiliated him.

As the weeks at sea pass Ahab becomes more manic in his quest to find the whale. “There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” When at last it is sighted, it took three days before the fight with the whale was over. Three whale boats are dispatched from the Pequod on the second day. All three successfully harpoon the whale, but two are smashed. On the third day, again three boats are sent, and all three boats are wrecked and sunk by the whale; Ahab’s is the last to go. Ahab has plunged yet another harpoon into the whale’s side but he is caught around the neck by the rope. He disappears into the vortex created by the sinking Pequod. Only Ishmael, the sailor/narrator survives to tell the story.

The novel is an apt metaphor for the American left since the night of Nov. 8. Despite their candidate’s incompetence, proven corruption, and absent message, they expected her to win in a landslide. Unable to accept the outcome of the election, they have been obsessed ever since, as obsessed as Ahab, with taking Trump down and out of the office of president.

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