Not P but Moby-Dick (49)

[Ian Livingston]

It may help to have this context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazeppa_(poem) which inclines me to the
notion of the ability to stay upright and mobile in the tossing boat.
So I'll suggest the intent is to elicit "nimble footed and lithe in the
limbs."

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 8:48 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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