Not P but Moby-Dick (39)

[Mark Kohut]

And with Melville's probable associative allusion to the Theory of Humors.
It was prevalent in The West for centuries....


Greek physician Hippocrates (ca. 460 BCE–370 BCE) is often credited with
developing the theory of the four humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile,
and phlegm—and their influence on the body and its emotions.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:52 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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