Not P but Moby-Dick (79)

[Mark Kohut]

Books can only give us the facts....not their interpretation....

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 2:04 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 99:
>
> Here’s the book. Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; and the sun, he’s always
> among ’em. Hem, hem, hem; here they are—here they go—all alive:—Aries, or
> the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull;—and Jimini! here’s Gemini himself, or the
> Twins. Well; the sun he wheels among ’em. Aye, here on the coin he’s just
> crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring.
> Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll
> do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the
> thoughts. That’s my small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar,
> and Bowditch’s navigator, and Daboll’s arithmetic go.
>
> In "Book! you lie there", "lie" is used in the sense "to tell a lie or
> lies", is that correct?
>
> If so, where is the lie exactly?
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