Not P but Moby-Dick (78)

[Michael Bailey]

Oops, that was Starbuck, not Ahab the loon…

He’s got the common sense to look away -

Next Stubbs gets the long soliloquy quoted in “Not P but Moby-Dick (79)”

But who’s that talking after Stubbs?
Starbuck again?



On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 2:20 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What it sounds like is that as he stares, he becomes more convinced of the
> coin’s veracity -
> He’s worried if he doesn’t quit looking at it, he will be “shaken falsely”
> by known truths -
>
> Honest perceptions will affect (shake) him in such a way as to seem wrong
> -
>
> ie the truth will seem false (because he’s deluded)
>
> At least he sort of knows he’s deluded - but wow!
>
> Haven’t encountered quite such a raving loon since reading about Weissmann
> in GR
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 2:30 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From Chapter 99:
>>
>> Yet, oh, the great sun is no fixture; and if, at midnight, we would fain
>> snatch some sweet solace from him, we gaze for him in vain! This coin
>> speaks wisely, mildly, truly, but still sadly to me. I will quit it, lest
>> Truth shake me falsely.
>>
>> What does "shake me falsely" mean here?
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>