Not P but Moby-Dick (35)

[Ian Livingston]

I agree with Mark I the specific, here. However, I agree that the ambiguity is likely intentional. 

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> On Nov 1, 2023, at 12:55 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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