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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