…trying to produce Melvillian opera out of your life. You know, Ahab says in Moby Dick, he's talking to his first mate, Starbuck, who signifies Christian right reason, and he says, he's raving about going after the whale, and he says, you know, we'll chase…

…going after the whale, and he says, you know, we'll chase it over both sides of earth and round perdition's flame. And Starbuck says, "'To seek revenge on a dumb brute seems blasphemy.'" And he says, "'Blasphemy, Starbuck? Speak not to me of blasphemy. I…

…sides of earth and round perdition's flame. And Starbuck says, "'To seek revenge on a dumb brute seems blasphemy.'" And he says, "'Blasphemy, Starbuck? Speak not to me of blasphemy. I would strike out the sun if it insulted me. For could it do that, then…

…unto death because it has become for him the symbol of a principle that inscrutable thing is what I chiefly hate, he tells Starbuck. And I see it. I see Ahab as another reincarnation of Faust, another picture of a human being who seeks to go beyond…

…this undertaking. In other words he's the straight man, he stands for calvinism, rectitude, reason, science and he says, speaking to Ahab, Starbuck says: Ahab has just shouted to the crew, aren't not game for moby dick and starbuck says: I am game for his…

…then that voices thee and then in an aside something shot from my dilated nostrils. He has inhaled it in his lungs. Starbuck now is mine, cannot oppose me now without rebellion. The unreasoning thing puts forth the moldings of its features from behind the…

…for Christian right reason. And he says to captain Ahab: to seek revenge on a dumb brute seems blasphemy. And Ahab says blasphemy. Starbuck, speak not to me of blasphemy. I would strike out the sun if it insulted me, for could it do that then could…