AtD translation: Seems more like work somehow is all.

[Mike Jing]

That makes sense. Thanks, Mark.

Probably for the challenge as well, now I can see from the previous
sentence:

He thought of it usually as the need to prevail over every challenge that
arose regardless of scale, from cutting a deck to working a rock face.



On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 6:48 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cmon gang. Have some simple opinions on the
> meaning(s) here for Mike. TRP would want you to.
> (Okay, I'll give one and you can all disagree with me.
> The plist worldly way. )
>
> I read this as Deuce saying when one worked under a contract system, paid
> (surely niggardly) for a set amount, that somehow
> Felt better than the gains by a strike--evidently for hourly
> Wages. ?
>
> Yes, that seemed more like work to Deuce, I'd say.
>
> Mary Anne's Career (continued) and Cousin Jack's Adventures
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=1tYsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=%22working+fathoms%22&source=bl&ots=5SbqpjAxNq&sig=mp-Hh5eGQifALMYMiHxHO0oDVnY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjM1Of7t4fbAhUyuVkKHba-AS0Q6AEwAXoECAAQLQ>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=1tYsAAAAYAAJ
> Henry John Daniel
> <https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Henry+John+Daniel%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjM1Of7t4fbAhUyuVkKHba-AS0Q9AgwAXoECAAQLg> -
> 1869
> Two lucky miners from the west, Well etock'd with cash and smartly dress
> 'd, Weary of working fathoms deep, Resolved to give the world a peep.
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 9:47 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> P193.15-19   “Rather be workin fathoms,” Deuce muttered.
>>       “No contract system around here,” said Webb, who happened to be
>> single- jacking alongside. “Not since the aught-one strike, and it took
>> some good men dyin to get that.”
>>       “Nothin personal. Seems more like work somehow is all.”
>>
>> Here does Deuce mean "working fathoms" is more like real work? Or does he
>> mean something else?
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