Ever the plaigiarist, to “get Trump,” Biden borrows heavily from Melville’ paraphrasing Ahab:
“I’ll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition’s flames before I give him up!”
Ahab’s tirade at the end is Bidung verbatim with his final lines:
“To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”
I thought that was Khan, in The Wrath of Khan.