Not P but Moby-Dick (89)

[Michael Bailey]

Phantom limb pain ?

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 3:16 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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