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Vocabulary
a world held together with string and brown paper and sealing wax
1. Is the red sentence talking about the stuff were used in the past to write letters?
2. What is "the underlying condition of the world" in the green sentence?
3. Is the blue sentence talking about when a piece of gum can prevent from a disaster in for example a NASA mission?
Context:
I grew up in a world held together with string and brown paper and sealing wax, and that’s how it was. I slowly realised that this is the underlying condition of the world, and there’s nothing I like more than when, for example, there’s been a near disaster at NASA and they say: ‘If it hadn’t been for the chewing gum . . . ’. It’s not because I want to fetishise chewing gum or the aesthetics of gum pressed over some break or membrane; it’s because we have the intelligence to think: ‘Hey, there’s a malleable, mastic material and we can use that’.
2. What is "the underlying condition of the world" in the green sentence?
3. Is the blue sentence talking about when a piece of gum can prevent from a disaster in for example a NASA mission?
Context:
I grew up in a world held together with string and brown paper and sealing wax, and that’s how it was. I slowly realised that this is the underlying condition of the world, and there’s nothing I like more than when, for example, there’s been a near disaster at NASA and they say: ‘If it hadn’t been for the chewing gum . . . ’. It’s not because I want to fetishise chewing gum or the aesthetics of gum pressed over some break or membrane; it’s because we have the intelligence to think: ‘Hey, there’s a malleable, mastic material and we can use that’.
Top answer
red apple 1. Is the red sentence talking about the stuff were used in the past to write letters? No, to send packages with very cheap wrapping materials, so the package is likely to arrive damaged.
- red apple 1.
- Is the red sentence talking about the stuff were used in the past to write letters?
- No, to send packages with very cheap wrapping materials, so the package is likely to arrive damaged.
- red apple 2.
- What is "the underlying condition of the world" in the green sentence?
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red apple1. Is the red sentence talking about the stuff were used in the past to write letters?No, to send packages with very cheap wrapping materials, so the package is likely to arrive damaged.
red apple2. What is "the underlying condition of the world" in the green sentence?It refers to "string, brown paper and sealing
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I grew up in a world held together by using improvised, do-it-yourslef solutions for everyday mechanical problems, and that’s how it was. I slowly realised that this is what people do everywhere, and there’s nothing I like more than when, for example, there’s been a
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