Hacking Moby-Dick, Week 4
Week 4 Discussion
From Chapter 36, “The Quarter-Deck”:
OED on “crazy”:
4b. Of things, actions, etc.: Showing derangement of intellect; insane, mad.
1855 H. Melville Piazza Tales (1856) 425 Hopelessly infected with the craziest chimeras of his age. 1859 Sat. Rev. 7 471/1 Crazy theories. 18.. J. G. Whittier Cassandra Southwick ix By crazy fancies led. 1885 Manch. Examiner 13 Oct. 5/1 The crazy wildness of his appeal.