...forgone life, and top this one-piled comber of my death ! Towards thee I roll, thou all .destroying, but unconquering whale ; to the last I grapple with...and since neither can be mine, let me, then, tow to picces, while still chasing thee, though ticd to thee thou dd whale ! Thes, I give up the spear I"...

...ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber ot my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;...grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; tor hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool!...

...ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;...hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coff1ns and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces,...

...ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;...grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee . . . Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then...

...insult to the whale, Ahab insists upon his "naked" eyes to sight and meet the whale: "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;...thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" (MD, 571—2). Nothing but his primeval weapon, the harpoon, can come between himself and his prey....

...death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. . . . Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;...thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. (CXXXV) With that, he knowingly hurls his harpoon into the White Whale and is yanked to his death while...

...the beast by the ropes of the harpoons, and despite the plungings. the Captain attacks it screaming. "From hell's heart. I stab at thee, For hate's sake I spit my breath at thee." Despite the whale's long dives beneath the surface, Ahab still lives and waves to...

...wrath toward his bete noire, his inhuman nemesis, remains unredeemed, even unto death: "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;...thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. . . . Thou damned whale."36 Ahab — unlike Picasso, for instance — had committed his life to destroying...

...wave. Boatloads of men launched their harpoons at me. I saw Ahab and I heard him cry, "Toward thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale;...thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. . . . Thus, I give up the spear!" What a way to settle a dispute! There seemed no chance of common...

...death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. . . . Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale,...thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. . . ." Such a life and such a death Melville can render, however rhetorically, at least without embarrassment;...