Not P but Moby-Dick (76)

[Mark Kohut]

there can be a state of insight--wisdom-- so deep that it can be
depressively out of touch with reality.....

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 4:26 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 96:
>
> But even Solomon, he says, “the man that wandereth out of the way of
> understanding shall remain” (i.e. even while living) “in the congregation
> of the dead.”  Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee,
> deaden thee;  as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but
> there is a woe that is madness.  And there is a Catskill eagle in some
> souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of
> them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.
>
> What is "There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is
> madness." trying to convey here?
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