| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38847 |
| QUOTATION: | “Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!” deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988).
Ahab to his harpoon (”I baptize thee, not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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