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He knows that if he takes the musket and shoots Ahab in his bed
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he will save the whole ship of men.
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He does not do it.
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So, both Toadvine and Starbuck are presented
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with a moral problem: Do you murder
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the leader of an immoral, ill-fated, violent quest?
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Both men decide not to.
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This is a scene I'll come back to next time, on Wednesday,
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and I'll have more to say about it.
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But, for now, one thing that we can say about it is, once again,
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the lack of interiority for these characters makes a crucial difference.
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It's a crucial point of revision.