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In Moby Dick Ahab dies in his pursuit for revenge. Jane never expected anything different and in fact he welcomed it. What he now understands is that revenge is not explosive it's corrosive and is not solid but liquid and moving.
But now it's too late. Someone he's come to care about has stood too close. She is being eaten up by his revenge. It was slow at first, her acceptance of his misbehaviour, then she became his defender and now his helper.
Now his revenge is consuming her, burning and fatal
"Teresa can't come to the phone right now."