Not P but Moby-Dick (56)

[David Morris]

“The most exalted potency [raw power]” is (unfortunately) coupled in the
whale with an inner-mind-perspective of deep insecurity.

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 11:29 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 80:
>
> and remarking the depressions on one part of its summit, in phrenological
> phrase you would say—This man had no self-esteem, and no veneration. And by
> those negations, considered along with the affirmative fact of his
> prodigious bulk and power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though
> not the most exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.
>
> What is the author trying to imply here?
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