Not P but Moby-Dick (39)

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 11:02:16 UTC 2023


Mood, basically....

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 3:31 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 54:
>
> For my humor’s sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once narrated it
> at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint’s eve,
> smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn. Of those fine
> cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms
> with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and
> which are duly answered at the time.
>
> What does "For my humor’s sake" mean here?
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