>A soul's a sort of fifth wheel to a wagon What

Just as a wagon can do without a fifth wheel, a man can do without a soul.

Next.

>>9269431
What do you mean by this?

Funny that the next line is
>"What are you jabbering about, shipmate?" said I.

Melville asked "What did he mean by this?" even before you did.

>>9269431
No, this is just a deliberate stretch of someone so excited to dismiss the soul he forgets his brain where he left sprinting.
Anon, and what happens when a wagon wheel breaks and can not be mended? Are you going to carry it's weight on your back to keep the vessel steady?

>>9269451
It's a fifth wheel. You frisbee it into the fields and keep going.

>>9269426
>Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

Spirit/soul is a useful concept for conversation but you guys don't actually believe that a soul is a real thing, do you?

>>9269480
I would say of course, and of course not. But I'm not hedging.

>>9269480
I wish I could invest in this post.

>>9269451
my wagon wheels never break ;)

>>9269431
Wrong

>>9269480
You don't actually believe reality is how your ape brain perceives it, do you?

>>9269730
>ape brain
cringe

>>9269996
>it's an anon thinks he's omniscient again episode

>>9269996
Your an ape. I'm an ape.

Watch how people move, they move like apes.

Every wagon has an imperceptible wheel which facilitates non-physical motion