Not P but Moby-Dick (88)

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sat Mar 16 07:58:49 UTC 2024


I agree.....did not read right...

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 3:49 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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