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…showed last 75 words of 1355 total…and the sea as a morally ambivalent cosmos. If so, then the fault of Ahab and the crew of the Pequod is their futile attempt to master a force of nature far beyond their comprehension, and are destroyed for it. The image of Ishmael floating helplessly upon the ocean, without even the wreckage of the Pequod th! en becomes a strikingly lonely image of humanity adrift in a universe neither good nor evil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**