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From: chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander)
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Subject: Khan's Curses in ST II
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 16:20:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 16:20:12 1985
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Summary: Quotes taken from Moby Dick


	Most of the juicy statements that Khan Noonian Singh
utters in the movie, The Wrath of Khan, are taken from the
Herman Melville book Moby Dick.  They are uttered by Captain
Ahab at the Great White Whale.

	Things like (paraphrasing, since I don't have the book
with me): " ... with my last breath I spit at thee.."  "... from
the darkess depths of hell I stab at thee".  etc.  You can find
all of these in the book or the Moby Dick movie.  Watch Gregory
Peck utter these words after he has pulled himself up onto the
whale and is stabbing it with a harpoon.

	I suppose that Herman Melville's words are now in the
public domain, so plagarism shouldn't be an issue.  Still, I remember
quite a few movie critics and reviewers lauding the wickedness of
Khan and quoting his juicy remarks as examples.  I wonder if any
of them knew the source?  (The Enterprise - The Great White Whale?)

	"Can you smell it?  He smells like land.  Land
	 where there is no land!"

			- Christopher Salander
			  Lockheed Space Systems Division

	"Watch the birds! He rising!!"