Not P but Moby-Dick (70)

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 01:04:31 UTC 2024


I think I got it. Thanks, Mark and Michael.


On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 7:29 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> exotic: special, unusual, unique, different..... it can also mean foreign
> -- like someone who looks very different than the people you usually see
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:03 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From Chapter 88:
>>
>> For like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my
>> Lord Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower; and
>> so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the
>> world; every baby an exotic.
>>
>> What does "exotic" mean here?
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