Not P but Moby-Dick (74)

[Mark Kohut]

Yes,,,which is what I meant......the whalers found, or created, the
substance whatever it is...

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 6:29 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On the face of it, it seems to be saying that whalers are also the origin
> of the nature of the substance, which seems a bit strange to me. In
> addition, it seems the nature of the substance is not yet well understood.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 4:53 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>