Not P but Moby-Dick (49)

[Mike Jing]

I thought "being made a Mazeppa of" meant being caught in the line and "run
away with where the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out",
therefore the boat would not be compared to the horse, although there are
some similarities here.


On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:25 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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