Not P but Moby-Dick (63)

[Ian Livingston]

The whale itself is metaphoric of a world becoming less, surrendering its
value, its virtues, to men's dominance.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 4:49 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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