 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me: I see in...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there... | |
 | Nancy Fredricks - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 174 pages
...wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; He heaps me; I see in...whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. (164) Ahab, like Ishmael before the face that is no face, experiences the white whale as a limit to... | |
 | William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...behind the unreasoning mask If man will strike, strike through the mask! I see in [the white whale] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing...white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him " (P. 164) In thus taking Starbuck down a "little lower layer," Ahab, as Donald Pease has shown in... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - History - 2003 - 378 pages
...appeasement of the rebellion in their speeches. If Ahab declares that "the white whale .. . tasks me; heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an...That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and ... I will wreak that hate upon him," 32 for Lincoln there was an equivalent object of hate: This declared... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1996 - 644 pages
...wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in...principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1996 - 644 pages
...wall? To me, die white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in...an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable tiling is chiefly what I hate; and be die white whale agent, or be die white whale principal, I will... | |
 | David W. Augsburger - Religion - 1996 - 196 pages
...enraged with a dumb thing seems blasphemous," Ahab replies: "I see in him outrageous strength with inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate. ... I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted... | |
 | Henry Sussman - Philosophy - 1997 - 338 pages
...distinctive language of transcendental overview and grandiose pretension that Melville assigns to Ahab: That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and...that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then I could do the other.. . . Who's... | |
 | David Harlan - History - 2009 - 329 pages
...except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. . . . that inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and...whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. 46 Pocock is well aware of all this, of course, as he is of recent developments in literary criticism... | |
 | David Harlan - History - 2009 - 329 pages
...except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. . . . that inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and...white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.46 Pocock is well aware of all this, of course, as he is of recent developments in literary criticism... | |
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tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. 
