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Moby Dick
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville · Yapı Kredi Yayınları · 1851
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8.1 (418 oy)
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The epic story of Captain Ahab, who drags his ship and crew into catastrophe in pursuit of revenge on Moby Dick, the gigantic white whale that took his leg. Not just a seafaring adventure, but a philosophical account of the arrogant war a human being wages against nature, against God and against the obsessive darkness within.
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“My madness is not an illness; it is only a merciless focus.”
“A person would rather burn in the hell they created than live in someone else’s paradise.”
“That white whale is my prison; I cannot breathe until I break its wall.”
“On the ship of pride, death is always at the helm.”
“Ignorance is always safe; knowing makes you bleed.”
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Melville wrote the most magnificent madness in the history of literature. Captain Ahab is the incarnation of the untamable, limitless human will. Ahab’s rage at the white whale is in fact a person’s rage at their own mortality and at the indifference of the universe. The Cevvela manifesto recognizes that unbridled power — the gem — within a person. But Ahab shows us how that power, once it becomes an obsession, drags its owner into hell. The book proves how helpless reason and logic (the character of Starbuck) are before that colossal ambition. You are horrified to realize how the unreachable “white whales” you chase in your own life are slowly consuming you. Your goal should bring you into being, not swallow you.