Not P but Moby-Dick (60)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Ian.

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 1:22 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You are correct, Mike. Think of a boat, for instance, as it crosses calm
> water, the wake trailing diagonally from the straight course of the boat's
> passage. Here, the boats are arrayed in such a pattern, with the nearest
> boat closest to the whale's immediate course, and the others arrayed
> outward from the wake, diagonally.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From Chapter 81:
>>
>> With a shout, they took a mortal start forwards, and slantingly ranged up
>> on the German’s quarter.  An instant more, and all four boats were
>> diagonically in the whale’s immediate wake, while stretching from them, on
>> both sides, was the foaming swell that he made.
>>
>> Here, do "slantingly" and "diagonically"(=diagonally) refer to the
>> relative
>> position of the boats, or is it something else? What exactly is the
>> picture
>> here?
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