Not P but Moby-Dick (28)

[Mark Kohut]

Yes.....

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 3:58 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 47:
>
> The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white
> tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket
> of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide trowsers of the same
> dark stuff. But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white
> plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his
> head.
>
> The "white plaited turban" is just his hair, is that correct? It seems
> obvious to me, but all the previous translations I have at hand treated it
> as a real turban.
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