Not P but Moby-Dick (68)

[Mike Jing]

That's my reasoning as well. Thanks, Michael.


On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 12:23 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> “Short darts, for there was no time to make long ones”
>
> The distinction drawn between short and long darts suggests that he was
> throwing, rather than - or possibly in addition to - thrusting
>
> Because a long thrust wouldn’t take appreciably more time than a short one,
> would it?
>
> But a long throw would take more time - especially to pull back in - than a
> short throw
>
> From Oxford Languages - “dart”
>
>
>    1. 2.
>    shoot (an animal) with a dart, typically in order to administer
>    <
> https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=7240d02c12ae2dd6&hl=en-us&sxsrf=ACQVn087VLguH9jcq1r_FDhWF6YDsAwQDw:1707801665651&q=administer&si=AKbGX_pvY3MWP4azJI0Z_NruCLb8P4obPVZgfIxVofDNXY_PcVhWZkaz0IGv8ubV-khD2i-Ibu3Je--hY7h__BGFfEYm7liTvG4EvM7EvopxzVZsxjZVHcU%3D&expnd=1&biw=430&bih=856&dpr=3
> >
>     a drug.
>    "he darted the leopard with a long-acting anesthetic"
>    - ARCHAIC
>       throw (a missile
>       <
> https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=7240d02c12ae2dd6&hl=en-us&sxsrf=ACQVn087VLguH9jcq1r_FDhWF6YDsAwQDw:1707801665651&q=missile&si=AKbGX_okS0g0kR2PXn0TLBASIc0muEal27_DzEuXlUS5KWGfb9wRDmiXsS4ydP-hvZEUTXg5ZKjXPDR-ZQ-egy7e2VeVQ2K6WKLuLvl8B8cL1eLhLtwAO0w%3D&expnd=1
> >
>       ).
>       "he darted his fierce iron"
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> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From Chapter 87:
> >
> > But not a bit daunted, Queequeg steered us manfully; now sheering off
> from
> > this monster directly across our route in advance; now edging away from
> > that, whose colossal flukes were suspended overhead, while all the time,
> > Starbuck stood up in the bows, lance in hand, pricking out of our way
> > whatever whales he could reach by short darts, for there was no time to
> > make long ones.
> >
> > Here, was Starbuck throwing his lance at the whales, or was he just
> > thrusting without the lance leaving his hand?
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