Not P but Moby-Dick (35)

[Michael Bailey]

Intentionally ambiguous? The aboriginals are fairly ignorant, & so would
their questions be.

But I have a slight preference for:

They “eyed each other … and asked [each other] of the sun and the moon why
[those heavenly bodies] were created and to what end”



On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 5:30 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> man.....the first man and his descendants.....asking the cosmos the meaning
> of life.....
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 3:17 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From Chapter 50:
> >
> > —those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these
> > modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth’s
> > primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct
> > recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed
> > each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they
> > were created and to what end;  when though, according to Genesis, the
> > angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add
> the
> > uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.
> >
> > What does "they" refer to in "and asked of the sun and the moon why they
> > were created and to what end"?
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