Not P but Moby-Dick (63)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, David and Ian.


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 9:05 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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