Not P but Moby-Dick (61)

[Ian Livingston]

It's my impression in this case that the "everlasting mail" is the news of
the world a dying soul carries into the afterlife.

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:17 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 81:
>
> This puts me in mind of fastening to an elephant in a tilbury on a
> plain—makes the wheel-spokes fly, boys, when you fasten to him that way;
> and there’s danger of being pitched out too, when you strike a hill.
> Hurrah! this is the way a fellow feels when he’s going to Davy Jones—all a
> rush down an endless inclined plane! Hurrah! this whale carries the
> everlasting mail!”
>
> What is this "everlasting mail" about?
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