Not P but Moby-Dick (81)

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Sat Mar 9 12:38:22 UTC 2024


>From Chapter 103:

Think you not then that brains, like yoked cattle, should be put to this
leviathan, to make him at all budge to any landsman’s imagination?

Here "brains" are the brains of landsmen, is that correct? So a landsman
needs several brains working together to imagine the magnitude of the sperm
whale.


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