Not P but Moby-Dick (88)

[Michael Bailey]

Yeah but the guy is 50 foot high - so the arms might be up to 25 feet long
& the wrists would be correspondingly burly

However, the scattershot nature of the measurements indicates a lack of
coherent plan

Quarter acre of brains
50 foot tall
Chest modeled after the Thames Tunnel

The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London,
connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 ft (11 m) wide by 20 ft
(6.1 m) high

I vote for 3 foot wide wrists (-;



On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 2:58 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is the length of the arms....which are, in general, up to half the
> height of a man....
>
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 12:03 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From Chapter 108:
> >
> > Hold;  while Prometheus is about it, I’ll order a complete man after a
> > desirable pattern.  Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks;  then, chest
> > modelled after the Thames Tunnel;  then, legs with roots to ’em, to stay
> in
> > one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist;  no heart at all,
> brass
> > forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains;  and let me
> > see—shall I order eyes to see outwards?  No, but put a sky-light on top
> of
> > his head to illuminate inwards.  There, take the order, and away.
> >
> > What does "arms three feet through the wrist" mean here? Is "there feet"
> > the width of the wrist? Most of the previous translations interpreted it
> as
> > the length of the arms, which doesn't seem right.
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