Header image: Poster for 1976 theatrical re-release of Moby Dick. /// After Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, has been destroyed by the white whale he’s been hunting across the globe in the final scenes of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, he says the following: “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” It’s clear that Ahab has come to hate the whale with an unmeasured scorn. It took one of his legs prior…