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“Good-bye, Lucifer, proud spirit.” Maud Brewster pays her tribute to the dying Wolf Larsen, protagonist of Jack London’s novel The Sea Wolf (1904). Wolf is not Larsen’s real name. He got that name because of his inhuman personality traits. Maud Brewster calls him Lucifer and he might as well be that proud but fallen angel. Larsen lives totally outside normal human conventions. He is the captain of a ship named Ghost. I...
