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As a man possessed with a singular, all-consuming purpose in life (killing Moby Dick), Ahab is not bothered by mortal concerns like disease.

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The archangel Gabriel is God’s favorite messenger. Most famously, he announced the conception and birth of Jesus Christ to the Virgin Mary, and event known as “the annunciation”.

In John Collier’s “The Annunciation,” Mary is depicted as a suburban school girl with knobby knees hiding her face in a book. Gabriel has probably not yet announced her impending pregnancy. What will her parents think?

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In Revelations 16:17, the opening of the seventh vial unleashes an epic earthquake and hailstorm upon the earth. That this man carries the seventh vial in his breast pocket makes him something of a suicide bomber.

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Jeroboam was king of Israel from 931-910 BC. He is known as the man who lead “Israel to sin” because he erected golden calves for his people to worship, which is a pretty big no no for the God of Israel.

But why the heck would a Nantucket Quaker name his ship after an idolator?

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Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn. You are not so much a place as an idea. An idea that smells of sex.

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Douthat’s column is based on questionable new (and questionably new) social scientific research, his fear of sex in general, and of sex among highly educated young people like himself, in specific. The title character in Adelle Waldman’s novel, “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” represents someone just like Douthat–young, well-intentioned, smart…except he gets laid a bit and this is fucking awful (because women have no agency and are therefore simply victims of his penis).

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