Not P but Moby-Dick (78)

[Mike Jing]

Sorry, I messed up. It's Flask talking after Stubbs, and then Stubbs again.
It's Stubbs commenting on the others, not Starbuck.


On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 6:29 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, it was Starbuck again after Stubbs. He was giving commentary after
> each one.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 2:27 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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