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Basear (tb) em Dalinar?

“Death is the end of all men!” Dalinar bellowed. “What is the

measure of him once he is gone? The wealth he accumulated and left
for
his heirs to squabble over? The glory he obtained, only to be passed
on to
those who slew him? The lofty positions he held through
happenstance?
“No. We fight here because we understand. The end is the same. It is
the path that separates men. When we taste that end, we will do so
with
our heads held high, eyes to the sun.”
TWoK, 1037

Contar linearmente ou em flashbacks seu passado? Sua formação ahabiana?

A história dos seus descendentes lendários pode ser importante conhecer em maiores
detalhes.

um cavaleiro de scyld’ar (ou um jotnar) ahabiano/satânico (Milton) (c a aparência do Juiz

Holden de Meridiano de Sangue, a talvez a personalidade – war everlasting...
https://lithub.com/harold-bloom-on-cormac-mccarthy-true-heir-to-melville-and-faulkner/),
herói supremo da frente de guerra, q, como Ahab, mesmo estando preso (ou tendo recebido
ordens p n ir à guerra ainda), se libertou ou insubordinou e liderou sua unidade (legião?) de
cavaleiros p (qual Terra Devastada?) à caça do líder do Fir Bolg, leviatã, Moby Dick, monstro
desconhecido c o qual ele já vinha sonhando há tempos (ver história de Ahab)... XXXXX será
(alguém comentará) descendente do Tuatha q derrou Balor... [n q haja ligação – agora, na
nova história de OL – ligação entre os fomorianos e a nova ameaça, a n ser simbólica (embora
fosse melhor se houvesse: se o novo fosse uma reencarnação do velho).

Seus seguidores pensam q ele é imortal. Ele mesmo chegará ao ponto de pensar isso?

Vothr teria matado (usar outro termo; algo equivalente a matar a alma; desencatado?... algo
mais forte: sorvido, nulificado

“Como pode uma monstruosidade imensa [extraordinária, majestosa, magnífica] como essa
coexistir com o império dos sóis. Na qualidade de representante de dito império, o maior sob
os sóis, afirmo para todos os mundos ouvirem: não pode!”. Ele teria querido falar imperador
do sol, e estaria projetando sua própria imagem na do imperador, ou se autoidentificando c o
imperador; ou terá dito imperador, mas teria sido um slip of tongue: ele quereria dizer
império.

described with images of royalty, divinity, and archeology.

infidel, impious, diabolic, blasphemous, isolated, stubborn, vengeful, quickly enraged

a prominent brow or forehead

Ahab does not realize that the malice he sees in the White Whale is his own, "wildly
projected."

His Narcissistic self-delusion (he is unaware that he sees himself in the whale)
complements "his Oedipean self-ignorance" (he does not know who he really is).

are "ultimately unknowable."

What is the reader to make of the Judge? He is immortal as principle,

as War Everlasting, but is he a person, or something other? McCarthy
will not tell us, which is all the better, since the ambiguity is most
stimulating. Melville’s Captain Ahab, though a Promethean demigod,
is necessarily mortal, and perishes with the Pequod and all its crew,
except for Ishmael. After he has killed the Kid, Blood Meridian’s
Ishmael, Judge Holden is the last survivor of Glanton’s scalping
crusade. Destroying the Native American nations of the Southwest is
hardly analogous to the hunt to slay Moby Dick, and yet McCarthy
gives us some curious parallels between the two quests. The most
striking is between Melville’s chapter 19, where a ragged prophet who
calls himself Elijah warns Ishmael and Queequeg against sailing on
the Pequod, and McCarthy’s chapter 4, where “an old disordered
Mennonite” warns the Kid and his comrades not to join Captain
Worth’s filibuster, a disaster that preludes the greater catastrophe of
Glanton’s campaign.
McCarthy’s invocation of Moby-Dick, while impressive and
suggestive, in itself does not do much to illuminate Judge Holden for
us. Ahab has his preternatural aspects, including his harpooner
Fedallah and Parsee whaleboat crew, and the captain’s conversion to
their Zoroastrian faith. Elijah tells Ishmael touches of other Ahabian
mysteries: a three-day trance off Cape Horn, slaying a Spaniard in
front of a presumably Catholic altar in Santa Ysabel, and a wholly
enigmatic spitting into a “silver calabash.” Yet all these are
transparencies compared to the enigmas of Judge Holden, who seems
to judge the entire earth, and whose name suggests a holding,
presumably of sway over all he encounters.
https://lithub.com/harold-bloom-on-cormac-mccarthy-true-heir-to-melville-and-faulkner/

Moby-Dick is an ecological nightmare; so are we. Melville’s cause is not “save the
whales” but “strike the sun if it insults you and strike through the white pasteboard
mask of all visible things at God, who has degraded you.” Ahab has passed through
Parsee Manichaeism and arrived at an American gnosis, ruggedly antinomian. Yes,
Ahab is a dictator who drowns his entire crew with him, except for Ishmael. What would
you have? Yahweh’s Leviathan cannot lose; should Ahab yield to Starbuck, who
informs him that he only seeks vengeance on a dumb brute? The Promethean captain
ought to abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes?
the Pequod’s company votes for its marvelous catastrophe. Ahab is possessed, but so
are they (Ishmael included).

A subtle connection between Ahab, Moby Dick and Fedallah is formed by the imagery of
the brow and forehead. According to Sweeney, Fedallah is "clearly an external projection of
Ahab's own depravity" and at the same time a double of what Ahab finds most evil in the
whale.[45] Fedallah is several times described using "phantom" imagery in the chapter
"Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah." In Ovid's myth Narcissus has an airy counterpart in the
speech-deprived nymph Echo, who can only repeat the sounds she hears. Echo is an
auditory complement to the visual reflection and a foreshadowing of Narcissus' death. In
the same way Fedallah, who only says what Ahab wants to hear, is an auditory reflection of
Ahab's evil, of which Moby Dick is the visual reflection. Fedallah foreshadows Ahab's
death.

BIOGRAFIA
Ahab was named by his insane, widowed mother, who died when he was twelve months
old. It is interesting to note the etymology of the name Ahab derives from the
Hebrew ahavah and aheb meaning "to love" or "beloved" as cited in Strong's Concordance
no. 157 & 160. At 18 years old, Ahab first took to sea as a boy-harpooner. Less than three
voyages ago, Ahab married a sweet, resigned girl, with whom he has a young son. He has
been in colleges and among the cannibals, and has seen deeper wonders than the waves.
He has fixed his lance, the keenest and surest on the isle of Nantucket, in stranger foes
than whales.
Years ago, Peleg, now the co-owner of Pequod, sailed as mate under Ahab. During that
voyage, a typhoon near Japan swung her three masts overboard. Every moment the crew
thought the ship would sink, the sea breaking over the ship. Yet instead of thinking of
death, Captain Ahab and Peleg thought of how to save all hands, and how to rig temporary
masts in order to get into the nearest port and make repairs.
Before the ship sails from Nantucket, Ishmael encounters a man named Elijah who tells
him about some of Ahab's past deeds. According to Elijah, Ahab once lay near death for
three days and nights near Cape Horn, took part in a deadly battle against Spanish forces
before an altar in Santa, and spat into its silver chalice. Ahab lost his leg during his most
recent whaling voyage, leaving him with a grim disposition and a strong desire for revenge
against Moby Dick.
In addition to the prosthetic leg, Ahab bears a mark that runs down one side of his face and
neck: “Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side
of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender
rod like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the
straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it...
leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.” –(Moby-Dick, p. 129.) The mark and its
origins – whether a birthmark, the scar from a wound, or otherwise – are rarely mentioned
or discussed. Ahab's leg includes a small flat patch that he uses as a slate for making
navigational calculations. The deck planks of Pequod have been bored with shallow holes,
the same diameter as the lower end, to allow him to steady himself against the motion of
the ship. While at sea, he turns to the ship's carpenter and blacksmith to fashion a
replacement leg and fittings after damaging the one he wears.
Ahab is 58 years old at the time of Pequod's last voyage. Peleg and Bildad pilot the ship
out of the harbor, and Ahab first appears on deck when the ship is already at sea. Instead
of embarking on a regular whaling voyage, Ahab declares he is out for revenge and nails
a doubloon on the mast by way of reward for the crewmember who first sights Moby Dick,
the white whale. When Moby Dick is eventually sighted, a disastrous three-day chase
begins. Entangled by the line of his own harpoon, Ahab falls overboard and drowns as the
whale dives and takes him along.
Peleg refers to Ahab respectfully as a "grand, ungodly, god-like man" but he is also
nicknamed "Old Thunder".

 Fedallah contributes to Ahab's death by forecasting that:

 before Ahab dies, he must see two hearses: one not made by human hands
and one made of American wood (the whale itself is eventually one hearse as it
carries a dead body, and the Pequod the other when it sinks);
 he promises to precede his captain as a pilot;
 he assures Ahab that only hemp can kill him.
These prophesies, accurate as they may be, deceive Ahab, who perceives them to be an
assurance of victory

In a tragedy a hero has a mad counterpart: Prometheus has Io, Moby-Dick has Pip. The

madness of Io and Pip is caused by their unintentional contact with the primal elements or
with the deity. "The Pip who dances and shakes his tambourine before Queequeg's coffin,"
Sweeney compares, "is clearly a maniac, completely detached from his former personality."
Likewise, Io, tortured by the gadfly, "bursts upon the stage in a wild dance...While on the
stage, Io speaks with a disjointed frenzy much the same as Pip's.

In "The Candles," Ahab is temporarily stricken by blindness, an allusion to

the Oedipus myth