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Phrase: vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull



 
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Phrase: vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull #1 (permalink) Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:31 am   Phrase: vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull		  
Hi,

Would you please help me out with:
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A fly-buzzing saloon with a brilliant gold and enamel whisky sign across the front. Other saloons down the block. From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellowing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs--vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull--the delicacy of a mining-camp minus its vigor. In front of the saloons, farmwives sitting on the seats of wagons, waiting for their husbands to become drunk and ready to start home.


Could I understand it as: vice that people or things have gone feeble and unenterprising and dull?

Thank you very much.

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Phrase: vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull #2 (permalink) Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:08 am   Phrase: vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull		  
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'vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull' = the vices here presented are not creatively pursued-- they consist of just sitting and drinking. This of course follows from the farm husbands becoming dull as well.
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