Not P but Moby-Dick (3)

[Mike Jing]

This seems to make the most sense to me. Being unbaptized is not really
unique to cannibals.

Thanks all for replying.


On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 11:54 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Seems to me like it would mean that they have recently eaten human flesh &
> it has formed part of their body
> So they are “carrying it on their bones”
>
> People say, “I’m carrying a little extra weight from the holidays”
>
> Same principle - “I’m carrying a little extra weight from the missionary we
> roasted last month”
>
> Or something like that.
>
> The word “unholy” applies because, hey, cannibalism transgresses social
> norms.
>
> To see them knowing what they recently did “makes a stranger stare.”
>
> The Chilean soccer team probably got some stares like that when they walked
> thru town after coming back from the Andes.
>
> https://www.history.com/news/miracle-andes-disaster-survival
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 1:03 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The following excerpt is from Chapter 6:
> >
> > In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors;  but in New Bedford,
> > actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners;  savages outright;
> many
> > of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.  It makes a stranger
> stare.
> >
> > What does "yet carry on their bones unholy flesh" mean here? All five
> > previous Chinese translations I have consulted interpreted it as being
> > naked, but I don't think it's correct.
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