Not P but Moby-Dick (23)

[Mark Kohut]

Pines often don't ive when transplanted to any other soil....surviving is
hard....

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 1:33 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Even more from Chapter 40:
>
> How the three pines shake! Pines are the hardest sort of tree to live when
> shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed
> clay.
>
> Four of the five previous translations I have at hand interpreted this as
> "pine can live in any sort of soil", which doesn't seem right to me. It
> seems that they have confused "hardest" with the word "hardy", or am I
> missing something here?
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