Not P but Moby-Dick (89)

[Mike Jing]

Yes, that should be what Ahab wanted to get rid of.


On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 3:50 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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