Not P but Moby-Dick (16)

[Michael Bailey]

Or like 'Bloody' Chiclitz in GR: "fuck not with the Kid, lest instead of
fucker, thou become Fuckee"

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 12:55 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In order to change Ahab's course, any that come to deter him from his
> "fixed idea" will suffer the consequence of their attempts. The economic
> force of history determined with the advent of capitalism cannot be
> deterred (swerved off its course) without destroying whole populations.
> Melville at his most prophetic.
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:52 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Also from Chapter 37:
> >
> > No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.
> > Come forth from behind your cotton bags! I have no long gun to reach ye.
> > Come, Ahab’s compliments to ye; come and see if ye can swerve me. Swerve
> > me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there.
> >
> > What does "ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves" mean? And what
> > is "man has ye there"?
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