Not P but Moby-Dick (87)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Michael.


On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:50 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> He’s mock-apologizing for springing the tale of Ahab’s near-impalement by
> the ivory limb (and therefore staying mostly in his quarters “both before
> and after the Pequod sailed”, while he healed) on us - as an incidental
> detail like “oh, by the way” - instead of telling it earlier as a part of
> the story, in chronological order (“in set way”)
>
> Which replicates the timing and the way Ishmael would’ve learned about it,
> because Ahab’s “inner circle”
>
> that ever-contracting, dropping circle
>
> were closed-mouthed about it.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 5:01 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From Chapter 106:
> >
> > Unwittingly here a secret has been divulged, which perhaps might more
> > properly, in set way, have been disclosed before.
> >
> > What does "in set way" mean here?
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