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Expression: He faced about and back again.



 
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Expression: He faced about and back again. #1 (permalink) Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:44 am   Expression: He faced about and back again.
 

Hi,

Could you help me with the sentence below?

Quote:
He stepped swiftly off, his eyes coming to blue life as they passed a broad sunbeam. He faced about and back again.

--Dying, he said again, if not dead by now.

(II, Ulysses)


Does it mean:

1. He first faced sideways and then (faced) back again. Or,

2. He looked around and came back to his talking again.? (He was in a speech)

Quote:
His eyes open wide in vision stared sternly across the sunbeam in which he halted.


3. Is the sentence saying: His eyes, widely open as if something came into his vision, stared sternly across the sunbeam (sunwise; toward the Sun) in which he stood.?

Thank you!

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Expression: He faced about and back again. #2 (permalink) Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:02 am   Expression: He faced about and back again.
 

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1-- Deasy turned around and paced back.
2-- Yes, but not at the sun- across the sunbeam means horizontally through it to the other side. Deasy doesn't see the sunbeam he is standing in; only Stephen notices it. Deasy is preoccupied with his vision of the jews destroying England.
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Expression: He faced about and back again. #3 (permalink) Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:12 am   Expression: He faced about and back again.
 

Thank you so very much, MM. Now I got them full and everything here now is 'pluterperfect' (sorry borrowing a word from Joyce) to me. :)

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