Not P but Moby-Dick (3)

[Mark Kohut]

I do not think being unbaptized has to be unique to be correct in this
usage...Also, savages is the noun before
the phrase; a word which was often used of the unbaptized in a Christian
world...See* The Savage Mind*....Levi-Strauss.

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 1:04 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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