Not P but Moby-Dick (81)

[David Morris]

In this analogy, brains (not necessarily plural people) are likened to the
YOKE.  A small thing that is able to control massive amounts of physical
power, by a lowly “landsman” (timid, and himself “domesticated.”)

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On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 7:38 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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