Not P but Moby-Dick (41)

[Ian Livingston]

Yeah, yeah. That’s it. Hard for me to remember half a century ago. How high was I, for instance?

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> On Nov 13, 2023, at 1:24 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> .
> 
> “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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