Not P but Moby-Dick (15)

[David Morris]

All of these musings are fun. I will be interested to see how they
influence your transition.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 4:55 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great madness is most aggravated when confronted with rationality, and
> finds calm in its own company, i.e., when alone.
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 1:01 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Three previous translations rendered it as "Only someone who is
> completely
> > mad can calmly comprehend his own madness", which doesn't seem right to
> me.
> > Another interpreted it as "Such ridiculous madness is only the calmness
> > needed in order to comprehend itself", which makes even less sense. I'm
> > still not quite sure what it is saying myself.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 4:56 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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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