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[one Task Of Intellectuals Is] To Break Down The Stereotypes And Reductive Categories That Are . . . Limiting To Human Thought And Communication.

The Just Response To This Terrible Event Should Be To Go Immediately To The World Community, The United Nations. The Rule Of International Law Should Be Marshaled, But It's Probably Too Late Because The United States Has Never Done That; It's Always Gone It Alone.

Captain Ahab Was A Man Possessed With An Obsessional Drive To Pursue The White Whale Which Had Harmed Him - Which Had Torn His Leg Out - To The Ends Of The Earth, No Matter What Happened. In The Final Scene Of The Novel, Captain Ahab Is Being Borne Out To Sea, Wrapped Around The White Whale With The Rope Of His Own Harpoon And Going Obviously To His Death. It Was A Scene Of Almost Suicidal Finality.

There's Been Essentially The Same Analysis Over And Over Again And Very Little Allowance Made For Different Views And Interpretations And Reflections.

My Argument Is That History Is Made By Men And Women, Just As It Can Also Be Unmade And Rewritten, Always With Various Silence And Elisions, Always With Shapes Imposed And Disfigurements Tolerated.