Not P but Moby-Dick (39)

[David Morris]

The Greek Stage had numerous and competing narrators jumping in and out of
the spotlight.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 10:09 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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