Not P but Moby-Dick (109)

[David Morris]

No. It’s the image something “advancing in a vale” that is being brought to
mind by a “spray.”  Both spray and shower are “mists” -airborne water

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 3:40 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 134:
>
> So suddenly seen in the blue plain of the sea, and relieved against the
> still bluer margin of the sky, the spray that he raised, for the moment,
> intolerably glittered and glared like a glacier; and stood there gradually
> fading and fading away from its first sparkling intensity, to the dim
> mistiness of an advancing shower in a vale.
>
> The "shower" here is not rainfall but a stream, is that right?
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