Not P but Moby-Dick (28)

[Mike Jing]

OK. Just making sure.

Also, correction, that excerpt was actually from Chapter 48.


On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 4:04 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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