As Ishmael floats helplessly atop the ocean deep, he becomes the stuff of Cosmicism - a strikingly lonely image of humanity adrift in a universe neither good nor evil. Death ends their misunderstanding, and negates their madness. The true madness of man is that of trying to apply a reasonableness to an unreasonable cosmos.
As the great philosopher Rodney Dangerfield pointed out, some people "get no respect." One would think after inventing a permanent part of pop culture for
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