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10-05-2011, 11:09 PM
That's about it, but there is more...
Not all the sailors went along with Ahab's crazy desire to enact revenge. Starbuck didn't. Starbuck alone was the man able to stand aside and let everyone else cheer the gold piece nailed to the mast. Starbuck saw the danger. But it didn't help him; he was still aboard the Pequod.
A sign of the times?...................Could be. Who is Ahab? And Starbuck? And are we all on the Pequod?:)
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10-05-2011, 11:17 PM
I was talking about the entire passage. I went through it in detail (above).
The breakdown and translation of the entire passage goes thus:
Even though the inhabitants of the land have always regarded the ocean with emotions that they can't talk about in polite society
Even though the sea is such a great unknown that it dwarfs Columbus's discovery of the "New World"
Even though the most deadly disasters have always happened on the sea, which does not discriminate in who it kills
Even though the sea will always destroy the most advanced technology of the human race
Nevertheless, because these impressions of the sea are repeated over and over again, man has lost the sense of what the sea really is in all its primitiveness.
In other words, the fear of the sea, its unknowability, its deadliness to humans and their advanced technology, have all been dulled by repetition to the extent that humans have really no idea what the sea really is.
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