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Expression: grow into Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:07 am  Expression: grow into
 

Hi,

I have run into a paragraph very interesting but difficult to me.

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About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.
Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

1. Does 'ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens' mean 'like wheat's growing, ashes grow into (become) ridges and hills...'?

2. Does the second 'where' modify 'ridges and hills and grotesque gardens'?

Could you please help me out with them?

Thank you!

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Expression: grow into Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:19 am  Expression: grow into
 

Hi Haihao,

I would suggest 'where ashes grow like wheat' the similarity is made between the way wheat grows and the way these ridges are formed. To me the second 'where' refers again to 'the farm'

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Expression: grow into Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:16 am  Expression: grow into
 

Hi Alan,

Thank you for your help that is really helpful and inspiring to me.

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