Not P but Moby-Dick (5)

[Ian Livingston]

You have it right, Mike. Boat and sailors are simile of fate itself. 


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> On Aug 26, 2023, at 9:39 PM, 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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