Not P but Moby-Dick (41)

[Michael Bailey]

Dude…”and so it goes” right?

https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/2018/07/vonnegut-by-the-numbers/#:~:text=As%20most%20Vonnegut%20fans%20could,than%20once%20every%20three%20pages
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“As most Vonnegut fans could guess, the most frequent sentence used in any
of his novels is “So it goes” from Slaughterhouse-Five. It's used *106
times*, which is more than once every three pages.”


On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:23 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Also, as I recall, the Opium Wars had ended just a decade (+/-) prior to
> MD, leading to upheaval in the power structure of the Eastern Pac. But you
> may know more about that than we do, Mike. The Americans played a small
> part in that, but that was a considerable contributor to the slave markets
> on the West Coast of North America, resulting in increased traffic
> throughout the Pacific from the West, until the dust settled following the
> American Civil War. "And so on," as Vonnegut always says.
>
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 6:03 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Any lobsterman will tell you the Atlantic can whip up a savage storm.
> > Also, the islands of the Atlantic were well known by this time, whereas
> > broad areas of the Pacific remained largely uncharted to the Western
> world,
> > though well known to the inhabitants of those regions.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 5:03 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes. This is definitely the intended meaning.
> >>
> >> Essentially, the map represents a kind of conquest over nature and
> >> barbarity
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 4:15 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Explored, mapped, and charted for efficiency crossing and arriving
> intact
> >>> at the intended destination.
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 11:47 AM 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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