Not P but Moby-Dick (41)

[Mark Kohut]

The solitary and savage seas are not the Atlantic but [the seas] "far from
you to the westward".

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 1:35 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That's certainly a possibility, but "settled and civilized" seems to
> contrast with "solitary and savage" in the next sentence.
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 4:07 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> quiet,,,,not turbulent, no storms, etc.....
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 2:47 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> From Chapter 54:
>>>
>>> You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our Atlantic,
>>> for
>>> example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole way across
>>> it; though
>>> of a still, sleepy night, should the officer of the deck happen to forget
>>> his duty in that respect, the probability would be that he and his
>>> shipmates would never again remember it, on account of all hands gently
>>> subsiding to the bottom. Nor in the solitary and savage seas far from you
>>> to the westward, gentlemen, is it altogether unusual for ships to keep
>>> clanging at their pump-handles in full chorus even for a voyage of
>>> considerable length; that is, if it lie along a tolerably accessible
>>> coast,
>>> or if any other reasonable retreat is afforded them.
>>>
>>> What does "settled" mean here?
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>>>
>>