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read the passage from moby-d. ick. to what is ahab comparing himself?

from moby-d. ick

“. . aye, tiny mosses in these warped cracks. no such green weather stains on ahab’s head! there’s the difference now between man’s old age and matter’s. but aye . . we both grow old together; sound in our hulls, though, are we not, my ship? aye, minus a leg, that’s all. by heaven this dead wood has the better of my live flesh every way. i can’t compare with it; and i’ve known some ships made of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of vital fathers.”

a.
a man’s leg

b.
tiny mosses

c.
the masthead

d.
the lives of men