Not P but Moby-Dick (74)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark.


On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 6:37 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>