Not P but Moby-Dick (54)

[Mike Jing]

I too agree. Thanks all for responding.


On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:27 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I still agree with your first impression, Michael. As a therapist, I can
> say that it is a common sentiment among mothers whose sons have met violent
> ends to join their sons in death.
> Prattle about Freudian spin is merely misplaced — what is it sometimes
> called?—ah, yes, mansplaining. Melville appears here rather to capture a
> mother’s grief quite well as a matter grasped more naturally prior to the
> emasculated theorists whose vocations warped around female passions as
> toxic.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Dec 16, 2023, at 4:17 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I agree with you. You've made a good case for it not being the mother
> > laying herself down, although that was my first impression. And you've
> > convincingly ruled out the idea of the mother just wanting to get the
> body
> > to "lay it to rest"
> >
> > still can't picture what the action is meant to be, though
> >
> >
> >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 5:44 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I do not think sleepless mothers, with the implied choice, would lay
> them
> >> down again, still dead.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 5:02 PM Michael Bailey <
> >> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> - “lay them down” I think is meant reflexively, like “now I lay me
> down to
> >>> sleep”
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