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Expression 'A very short space of time through very short times of space'



 
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Expression 'A very short space of time through very short times of space' Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:14 am  Expression 'A very short space of time through very short times of space'
 

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Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. Five, six: the NACHEINANDER. Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible. Open your eyes. No. Jesus! If I fell over a cliff that beetles o'er his base, fell through the NEBENEINANDER ineluctably! -- Chapter III, Ulysses

1. 'very short times of space' sounds to me normally difficult to grasp. Does 'times' here refer to the following 'Five, six' (steps or paces)?

2. The second underlined part is said of Hamlet. But I'd like to know grammatically if 'that' = 'whose' and 'his base' = 'cliff's base' = 'the sea'?

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The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, crouched in flight.

3. Does this mean 'a long distance of space of the sands'?

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Expression 'A very short space of time through very short times of space' Mon Aug 20, 2007 13:45 pm  Expression 'A very short space of time through very short times of space'
 

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1-- I think it is just Joyce playing with words again, Haihao-- space of time / times of space. I doubt he thought it through himself, really, but yes-- the 'times of space' would be the consecutive footsteps, I think.

2-- 'That' is the relative pronoun for the dependent clause: a cliff that/which beetles over its base. The base is the cliff's base, i.e. the bottom of the cliff; there is no sea involved.

3. Does this mean 'a long distance of space of the sands'? -- No, a sand spit is a specific structure.
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