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With "monotonous" ease? #1 (permalink) Mon Sep 04, 2006 20:21 pm   With "monotonous" ease?
 

"A paper clip gleams stacks of documents, a friend's fact shines like a beacon out of a crowd, the smell of freshly baked bread evokes childhood memories -- thoughts and perceptions such as these flow by with monotonous ease."

What does "monotonous ease" mean? I mean, if these things are monotonous, how can they be an ease?
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With "monotonous" ease? #2 (permalink) Mon Sep 04, 2006 21:37 pm   With "monotonous" ease?
 

Hi there, Coolie

Monotonous doesn't always mean boring. Here it means "continuous, regular, uninterupted".
Such regularity can be reliable and comforting.

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