counterpane Author: Herman Melville Copy Quote More from Herman Melville “To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.” “The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the d…” “for all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal...” “Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the…”