Not P but Moby-Dick (39)

[Ian Livingston]

Yes, with the nuance of the narrator entertaining himself, in this case,
with slightly exaggerated formality.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 3:03 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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