Not P but Moby-Dick (7)

[Mark Kohut]

Yes.

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 7:09 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The following excerpt is from Chapter 27:
>
> What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easygoing, unfearing
> man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of
> grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to
> bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have
> been his pipe.
>
> Several of the previous translations interpreted "grave peddlers" as
> "peddlers of graves", which I feel is wrong.  I think the word "grave" here
> means "serious, not mirthful or jocular," is that correct?
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