Not P but Moby-Dick (82)

[Michael Bailey]

Unbroken, unadorned, just a straight line imho



On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 3:52 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 103:
>
> To me this vast ivory-ribbed chest, with the long, unrelieved spine,
> extending far away from it in a straight line, not a little resembled the
> hull of a great ship new-laid upon the stocks, when only some twenty of her
> naked bow-ribs are inserted, and the keel is otherwise, for the time, but a
> long, disconnected timber.
>
> What does "unrelieved" mean here?
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