Not P but Moby-Dick (89)

[Mark Kohut]

Correct imo...

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 1:38 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 108:
>
> Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good
> workmanlike workman, eh? Well, then, will it speak thoroughly well for thy
> work, if, when I come to mount this leg thou makest, I shall nevertheless
> feel another leg in the same identical place with it; that is, carpenter,
> my old lost leg; the flesh and blood one, I mean. Canst thou not drive that
> old Adam away?
>
> In "will it speak thoroughly well for thy work", the implication is that it
> will not, is that correct? Most of the previous translations somehow think
> feeling the old lost leg is desirable, which is clearly wrong, since the
> next sentence is "Canst thou not drive that old Adam away?"
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