 Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:14 am Expression 'A very short space of time through very short times of space' |
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Hi,
I have got some new questions to ask of you.
| Quote: | | 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'?
| Quote: | | 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'?
Thank you!
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Haihao
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