Moby Dick; Or, The WhaleHerman Melville
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A reason to turn the page
Ahab hurls a sacrilege as iron devours blood—renouncing baptism, he crowns violence with blasphemy.
Discovery 5 of 15“Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!” deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.