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But on the other hand, "[m]an, in the ideal," writes the great H.M., the shipmate, or whatever you want to call him, call him Ishmael, in the account of his adventures in the watery regions, "is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.”
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* Caption writing is not an interesting literary genre. That is why most people first write something and then find something for which that thing could be a caption. I am no exception. The original idea of this piece was simply to let my friends re-read  that great line by the great H.M. But then things took,as usual, a life of their own. Now it was necessary to have something, a picture, a caption, to illustrate what the great H.M. actually meant. The purpose of this footnote was simply to remind the reader that while writing the main body of the text took some considerable amount of time and energy, not to mention idiotic audacity, finding something for the purpose of illustration was very easy. I randomly searched the word "beheading" in the internet and picked one of the first photos that crossed my eye. Here it is.
THAT, and also to mention that the emphasis in the first line is mine.