Not P but Moby-Dick (49)

[Mark Kohut]

Optimistic -(enough) equanimity...

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:44 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 60:
>
> It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils,
> because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and
> the other, without the slightest warning; and only by a certain
> self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can
> you escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing
> sun himself could never pierce you out.
>
> What does "buoyancy" mean here?
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