Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> No shortage of Ishmaels in the USA today; it's the real-world
> counterpart of the Rachel that is missing, making the analogy
> incomplete.
Jeremy Harding (author of the LRB article) ends:
"Ahab, of course, is the master of his own rogue state and hears nothing but the blood beating in his head. He flatly refuses Gardiner's entreaties and, in "a voice that prolongingly moulded every word," issues instructions to his Chief Mate: "In three minutes from this present instant warn off all strangers: then brace forward again, and let the ship sail as before." (Gardiner is the captain of the Rachel.)
Carrol