Not P but Moby-Dick (4)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark.


On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 7:38 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shaped like a/the globe and leaden.
>
> Modern humans have large and globular brains that distinguish them from
> their extinct *Homo*relatives. The characteristic globularity develops
> during a prenatal and early postnatal period of rapid brain growth critical
> for neural wiring and cognitive development. However, it remains un
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 7:30 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The following excerpt is from Chapter 16:
>>
>> still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their
>> subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a
>> thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king,
>> or
>> a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly
>> superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who
>> has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the
>> remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north,
>> been led to think untraditionally and independently;
>>
>> What does "globular" and "ponderous" mean here?
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>