Fwd: Not P but Moby-Dick (74)

[Mark Kohut]

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From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: Not P but Moby-Dick (74)
To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>


Whalers were the origin of slobgollion in word and some kind of deed.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 4:42 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 94:
>
> There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the
> course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately
> to describe. It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the
> whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.
>
> What does "even so" refer to here? Does it mean the nature of the substance
> is also very puzzling, or is it something else?
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