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a traitor, rebel or outlaw
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someone who is independent and unconventional is their outlook
or:
someone who is independent and unconventional is their outlook
- If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou Just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread...Chapters 25-27 -- Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (42% in)
- Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask.Chapters 40-42 -- Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (57% in)
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