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Pructus Posted 14 years ago
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An excerpt from Hemingway
He could not see by the slant of the line that the fish was circling. It was too early for that. He just felt a faint slackening of the pressure of the line and he commenced to pull on it gently with his right hand. It tightened, as always, but just when he reached the point where it would break, line began to come in. He slipped his shoulders and head from under the line and began to pull in line steadily and gently. He used both of his hands in a swinging motion and tried to do the pulling as much as he could with his body and his legs. His old legs and shoulders pivoted with the swinging of the pulling.
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Above is an excerpt from Hemingway.
What does the underlined part mean?
Did he brace himself on the bottome of the ship with his legs?
Or he moved his legs in a certain movement?
Did he moved his legs in a way similar to waking, like stepping one leg and then another?
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Above is an excerpt from Hemingway.
What does the underlined part mean?
Did he brace himself on the bottome of the ship with his legs?
Or he moved his legs in a certain movement?
Did he moved his legs in a way similar to waking, like stepping one leg and then another?
Top answer
Did he moved move his legs in a way similar to waking walking , like stepping on one leg and then another on the other ? No. Pivoting involves motion through a circular arc.
- Did he moved move his legs in a way similar to waking walking , like stepping on one leg and then another on the other ?
- No.
- Pivoting involves motion through a circular arc.
- The feet stay in place when pivoting, or nearly so.
- They may each slide on the surface in a circular movement as the rest of the body turns.
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Did he moved move his legs in a way similar to waking walking, like stepping on one leg and then
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