MDDM Ch. 31 "Something's askew."

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> A bit of Ahab in Mason and bit of Carroll's Bellman too:

S/B Carroll's Captain in the Bellman's speech. 

Also, Bedlam is a biggy in Shakespeare's King Lear. 

"...when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of
them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood,
straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and
bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize
that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it."

    --Melville