Not P but Moby-Dick (35)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks all for replying.


On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 9:31 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with Mark I the specific, here. However, I agree that the
> ambiguity is likely intentional.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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