Not P but Moby-Dick (14)

[Mark Kohut]

it goes down one feeling like it circles inside all the way down. You know,
how strong liquor does.
And here is the 'serpent-snapping eye" meaning.....

The liquor they were drinking was so strong it made them to wince, grimace,
and their eyes looked like this:



On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 1:32 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Still more from Chapter 36:
>
> “Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest
> seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short
> draughts—long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof. So, so; it goes
> round excellently. It spiralizes in ye; forks out at the serpent-snapping
> eye.
>
> What does "It spiralizes in ye; forks out at the serpent-snapping eye"
> mean?
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