Not P but Moby-Dick (52)

[David Morris]

I haven’t read the surrounding text, but isn’t this the notorious
homoerotic scene where everyone’s getting shoulders deep drenched in
slippery sperm whale goo?

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 5:35 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Duh.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 10, 2023, at 10:09 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> So the word “insinglass” comes from the Dutch word “huizenblaas” which is
> sturgeon goop.  But mica is not EVER known to exist in a viscous goopy
> state.
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 12:58 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Wikipedia notes the English word appears to have come from the Dutch
>> “huizenblaas” c. 18th century trade, referring the substance amply
>> described above, derived from sturgeon.
>>
>> The mica application came later, presumably via geologists or other
>> related rockheads. As an old ex-mountaineer, my association went quickly
>> the rockheaded interpretation. Happy to be reeducated.
>>
>> Thanks, all.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Dec 10, 2023, at 9:36 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Mica is a very thinly layered rock that can be peeled off in
>> translucent
>> > solid SHEETS (which might be what this whale stuff resembles after it
>> dies
>> > out in its solid state].
>> >
>> > But to translate the English word “insinglass” as mica because mica
>> > resembles insinglass seems like the highest form of circular logic
>> > --
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>>
>