Not P but Moby-Dick (36)

[David Morris]

Q:  What does "those that we left behind secure" refer to?

A:  “Those” are who/what we RETURN to, when we get back to “the very point
whence we started.”  [Here’s a hint: *It’s also the SAME THING as that from
which we can’t ever run!*]

David Morris

On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 11:08 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 52:
>
> Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but
> whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless
> perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind
> secure, were all the time before us.
>
> The existing
> translations are all over the place, and I suspect only one of them is
> close to right.
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