Not P but Moby-Dick (79)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Michael and Mark.


On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 6:02 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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