Not P but Moby-Dick (36)

[Ian Livingston]

Yes. Whether there and back or by circumnavigation, when the goal is the
starting point, those we left behind are there at our return, including our
debts and debtors, our loved and loathed, etc., they are relatively secure
in comparison to those who journey--especially if they journey as whalers
on a mission of vengeance.

On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 9:19 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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