Not P but Moby-Dick (5)

[Mark Kohut]

Yes.

Our fate is determined. Can't see anything else.so to unpack imo.

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 12:39 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The following excerpt is from Chapter 22:
>
> Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a
> screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three
> heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.
>
> Does the last sentence mean that we blindly plunged like fate does?
>
> Some of the previous translations interpreted "like fate" as "as if
> determined by fate" or "as if resigned to fate", but neither seems right to
> me. The former may be implied, but probably shouldn't be made explicit,
> while the latter just seems wrong.
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