May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 39m
English

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
—Michel de Montaigne
Captain Ahab, the monomaniacal character at the heart of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, was obsessed with the white whale. Not just interested. Not fascinated. He was totally obsessed by the beast that had taken his leg. When Ahab set out to harpoon his obsession, did he delegate the job of finding the white whale? Absolutely not. The crew of the Pequod thought they were hunting sperm whales, not traveling to the ends of the earth to destroy their captain’s obsession.
Ahab probably isn’t the best example of a ...
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