Moby Dick

why does ahab describe himself to starbuck as a cannibal old me

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I believe this refers to his greatest desire.... to hunt and kill the fish.

"...the boy vivaciously wakes; sits up in bed; and his mother tells him of me, of cannibal old me; how I am abroad upon the deep, but will yet come back to dance him again.”

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