Not P but Moby-Dick (63)

[David Morris]

As the whale was dying, it slowly lost consciousness, thus its perceptive
connections to the world of consciousness was waning.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 4:24 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 81:
>
> It was his death stroke.  For, by this time, so spent was he by loss of
> blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had made;  lay
> panting on his side, impotently flapped with his stumped fin, then over and
> over slowly revolved like a waning world;  turned up the white secrets of
> his belly;  lay like a log, and died.
>
> What does "a waning world" mean here?
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