I don't think it's much of a spoiler, if you haven't been completley walled off from the cultural osmosis: If we are using both parts of the Cato suicide metaphor, maybe the narrative itself is the defiant finishing? Ishmael spilling his guts, as it were, about what happened on the Pequod?
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Date: 2016-01-09 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-01-11 02:16 am (UTC)I like that, and I could totally see Melville doing it. He does love his foreshadowing.