Not P but Moby-Dick (15)

[Mark Kohut]

If madness can be doubled or squared---as in "madness maddened"---then
stepping down
from that, simple madness leaves enough mental space---so to speak---to
comprehend itself.


On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:44 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 37:
>
> What I’ve dared, I’ve willed; and what I’ve willed, I’ll do! They think me
> mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild
> madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself! The prophecy was that I
> should be dismembered; and—Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will
> dismember my dismemberer.
>
> What does "That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself" mean?
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