"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
– Ahab's fiery response when the ship's mate, Starbuck, asks if it might not be blasphemous to pursue a vendetta against "a dumb creature"
Here are 10 of the lines most closely associated with Herman Melville's masterpiece "Moby Dick".
"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
– Ahab's fiery response when the ship's mate, Starbuck, asks if it might not be blasphemous to pursue a vendetta against "a dumb creature"
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