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To
accomplish
his
object
Ahab
must
use
tools
;
and
of
all
tools
used
in
the
shadow
of
the
moon
,
men
are
most
apt
to
get
out
of
order
.
He
knew
,
for
example
,
that
however
magnetic
his
ascendency
in
some
respects
was
over
Starbuck
,
yet
that
ascendency
did
not
cover
the
complete
spiritual
man
any
more
than
mere
corporeal
superiority
involves
intellectual
mastership
;
for
to
the
purely
spiritual
,
the
intellectual
but
stand
in
sort
of
corporeal
relation
.
Starbuck
's
body
and
Starbuck
's
coerced
will
were
Ahab
's
,
so
long
as
Ahab
kept
his
magnet
at
Starbuck
's
brain
;
still
he
knew
that
for
all
this
the
chief
mate
,
in
his
soul
,
abhorred
his
captain
's
quest
,
and
could
he
,
would
joyfully
disintegrate
himself
from
it
,
or
even
frustrate
it
.
It
might
be
that
a
long
interval
would
elapse
ere
the
White
Whale
was
seen
.
During
that
long
interval
Starbuck
would
ever
be
apt
to
fall
into
open
relapses
of
rebellion
against
his
captain
's
leadership
,
unless
some
ordinary
,
prudential
,
circumstantial
influences
were
brought
to
bear
upon
him
.
Not
only
that
,
but
the
subtle
insanity
of
Ahab
respecting
Moby
Dick
was
noways
more
significantly
manifested
than
in
his
superlative
sense
and
shrewdness
in
foreseeing
that
,
for
the
present
,
the
hunt
should
in
some
way
be
stripped
of
that
strange
imaginative
impiousness
which
naturally
invested
it
;
that
the
full
terror
of
the
voyage
must
be
kept
withdrawn
into
the
obscure
background
(
for
few
men
's
courage
is
proof
against
protracted
meditation
unrelieved
by
action
)
;
that
when
they
stood
their
long
night
watches
,
his
officers
and
men
must
have
some
nearer
things
to
think
of
than
Moby
Dick
.
For
however
eagerly
and
impetuously
the
savage
crew
had
hailed
the
announcement
of
his
quest
;
yet
all
sailors
of
all
sorts
are
more
or
less
capricious
and
unreliable
--
they
live
in
the
varying
outer
weather
,
and
they
inhale
its
fickleness
--
and
when
retained
for
any
object
remote
and
blank
in
the
pursuit
,
however
promissory
of
life
and
passion
in
the
end
,
it
is
above
all
things
requisite
that
temporary
interests
and
employments
should
intervene
and
hold
them
healthily
suspended
for
the
final
dash
.
Nor
was
Ahab
unmindful
of
another
thing
.
In
times
of
strong
emotion
mankind
disdain
all
base
considerations
;
but
such
times
are
evanescent
.
The
permanent
constitutional
condition
of
the
manufactured
man
,
thought
Ahab
,
is
sordidness
.
Granting
that
the
White
Whale
fully
incites
the
hearts
of
this
my
savage
crew
,
and
playing
round
their
savageness
even
breeds
a
certain
generous
knight-errantism
in
them
,
still
,
while
for
the
love
of
it
they
give
chase
to
Moby
Dick
,
they
must
also
have
food
for
their
more
common
,
daily
appetites
.
For
even
the
high
lifted
and
chivalric
Crusaders
of
old
times
were
not
content
to
traverse
two
thousand
miles
of
land
to
fight
for
their
holy
sepulchre
,
without
committing
burglaries
,
picking
pockets
,
and
gaining
other
pious
perquisites
by
the
way
.
Had
they
been
strictly
held
to
their
one
final
and
romantic
object
--
that
final
and
romantic
object
,
too
many
would
have
turned
from
in
disgust
.
I
will
not
strip
these
men
,
thought
Ahab
,
of
all
hopes
of
cash
--
aye
,
cash
.
They
may
scorn
cash
now
;
but
let
some
months
go
by
,
and
no
perspective
promise
of
it
to
them
,
and
then
this
same
quiescent
cash
all
at
once
mutinying
in
them
,
this
same
cash
would
soon
cashier
Ahab
.
Nor
was
there
wanting
still
another
precautionary
motive
more
related
to
Ahab
personally
.
Having
impulsively
,
it
is
probable
,
and
perhaps
somewhat
prematurely
revealed
the
prime
but
private
purpose
of
the
Pequod
's
voyage
,
Ahab
was
now
entirely
conscious
that
,
in
so
doing
,
he
had
indirectly
laid
himself
open
to
the
unanswerable
charge
of
usurpation
;
and
with
perfect
impunity
,
both
moral
and
legal
,
his
crew
if
so
disposed
,
and
to
that
end
competent
,
could
refuse
all
further
obedience
to
him
,
and
even
violently
wrest
from
him
the
command
.
From
even
the
barely
hinted
imputation
of
usurpation
,
and
the
possible
consequences
of
such
a
suppressed
impression
gaining
ground
,
Ahab
must
of
course
have
been
most
anxious
to
protect
himself
.
That
protection
could
only
consist
in
his
own
predominating
brain
and
heart
and
hand
,
backed
by
a
heedful
,
closely
calculating
attention
to
every
minute
atmospheric
influence
which
it
was
possible
for
his
crew
to
be
subjected
to
.
For
all
these
reasons
then
,
and
others
perhaps
too
analytic
to
be
verbally
developed
here
,
Ahab
plainly
saw
that
he
must
still
in
a
good
degree
continue
true
to
the
natural
,
nominal
purpose
of
the
Pequod
's
voyage
;
observe
all
customary
usages
;
and
not
only
that
,
but
force
himself
to
evince
all
his
well
known
passionate
interest
in
the
general
pursuit
of
his
profession
Be
all
this
as
it
may
,
his
voice
was
now
often
heard
hailing
the
three
mastheads
and
admonishing
them
to
keep
a
bright
look-out
,
and
not
omit
reporting
even
a
porpoise
.
This
vigilance
was
not
long
without
reward
.
It
was
a
cloudy
,
sultry
afternoon
;
the
seamen
were
lazily
lounging
about
the
decks
,
or
vacantly
gazing
over
into
the
lead-colored
waters
.
Queequeg
and
I
were
mildly
employed
weaving
what
is
called
a
sword-mat
,
for
an
additional
lashing
to
our
boat
.
So
still
and
subdued
and
yet
somehow
preluding
was
all
the
scene
,
and
such
an
incantation
of
revelry
lurked
in
the
air
,
that
each
silent
sailor
seemed
resolved
into
his
own
invisible
self
.
I
was
the
attendant
or
page
of
Queequeg
,
while
busy
at
the
mat
.
As
I
kept
passing
and
repassing
the
filling
or
woof
of
marline
between
the
long
yarns
of
the
warp
,
using
my
own
hand
for
the
shuttle
,
and
as
Queequeg
,
standing
sideways
,
ever
and
anon
slid
his
heavy
oaken
sword
between
the
threads
,
and
idly
looking
off
upon
the
water
,
carelessly
and
unthinkingly
drove
home
every
yarn
;
I
say
so
strange
a
dreaminess
did
there
then
reign
all
over
the
ship
and
all
over
the
sea
,
only
broken
by
the
intermitting
dull
sound
of
the
sword
,
that
it
seemed
as
if
this
were
the
Loom
of
Time
,
and
I
myself
were
a
shuttle
mechanically
weaving
and
weaving
away
at
the
Fates
.
There
lay
the
fixed
threads
of
the
warp
subject
to
but
one
single
,
ever
returning
,
unchanging
vibration
,
and
that
vibration
merely
enough
to
admit
of
the
crosswise
interblending
of
other
threads
with
its
own
.
This
warp
seemed
necessity
;
and
here
,
thought
I
,
with
my
own
hand
I
ply
my
own
shuttle
and
weave
my
own
destiny
into
these
unalterable
threads
.
