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Wholegrain Posted 18 years ago
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Can someone help me understand?
0 ""Odd fish!" 02 br
00 "Poor fellow!" 02 br
00 "Who can he be?" 02 br
00 "Casper Hauser." 02 br
00 "Bless my soul!" 02 br
00 "Uncommon countenance." 02 br
00 "Green prophet from Utah." 02 br
00 "Humbug!" 02 br
00 "Singular innocence." 02 br
00 "Means something." 02 br
00 "Spirit-rapper." 02 br
00 "Moon-calf." 02 br
00 "Piteous." 02 br
00 "Trying to enlist interest." 02 br
00 "Beware of him." 02 br
00 "Fast asleep here, and, doubtless, pick-pockets on board." 02 br
00 "Kind of daylight Endymion." 02 br
00 "Escaped convict, worn out with dodging." 02 br
00 "Jacob dreaming at Luz." 02 br
00 Such the epitaphic comments, conflictingly spoken or thought, of a miscellaneous company, who, assembled on the overlooking, cross-wise balcony at the forward end of the upper deck near by, had not witnessed preceding occurrences." 02 br
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00 Can someone tell me what meaning "epitaphic" is trying to convey? Should we allow for a metaphor? 02 br
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00 By "conflictingly spoken or thought" does he mean conflicting with what was said or thought regardless of the person and whether they were said by another person or not? 02 br
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00 Can you also tell me if "near by" means to a place mentioned already and before this extract? Because I don't think it refers to upper deck, nor balcony. 0-
00 "Poor fellow!" 02 br
00 "Who can he be?" 02 br
00 "Casper Hauser." 02 br
00 "Bless my soul!" 02 br
00 "Uncommon countenance." 02 br
00 "Green prophet from Utah." 02 br
00 "Humbug!" 02 br
00 "Singular innocence." 02 br
00 "Means something." 02 br
00 "Spirit-rapper." 02 br
00 "Moon-calf." 02 br
00 "Piteous." 02 br
00 "Trying to enlist interest." 02 br
00 "Beware of him." 02 br
00 "Fast asleep here, and, doubtless, pick-pockets on board." 02 br
00 "Kind of daylight Endymion." 02 br
00 "Escaped convict, worn out with dodging." 02 br
00 "Jacob dreaming at Luz." 02 br
00 Such the epitaphic comments, conflictingly spoken or thought, of a miscellaneous company, who, assembled on the overlooking, cross-wise balcony at the forward end of the upper deck near by, had not witnessed preceding occurrences." 02 br
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00 Can someone tell me what meaning "epitaphic" is trying to convey? Should we allow for a metaphor? 02 br
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00 By "conflictingly spoken or thought" does he mean conflicting with what was said or thought regardless of the person and whether they were said by another person or not? 02 br
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00 Can you also tell me if "near by" means to a place mentioned already and before this extract? Because I don't think it refers to upper deck, nor balcony. 0-
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" 12 blockquote 10 Here is a paraphrase of the quoted material: 02 br 00 These short comments (listed above) were the sorts of things that a variety of people said or thought about the man. ) These people were near the man, assembled on the overlooking, cross-wise balcony at the forward end of the upper deck. S.
- " 12 blockquote 10 Here is a paraphrase of the quoted material: 02 br 00 These short comments (listed above) were the sorts of things that a variety of people said or thought about the man.
- ) These people were near the man, assembled on the overlooking, cross-wise balcony at the forward end of the upper deck.
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- In this context, an epitaph is a short statement that summarizes the character of a person.
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01 cite 10 wholegrain 12 cite 10 Such the epitaphic comments, conflictingly spoken or thought, of a miscellaneous company, who, assembled on the overlooking, cross-wise balcony at the forward end of the upper deck near by, had not witnessed preceding occurrences." 12 blockquote10 Here is a paraphrase of the quoted material: 0
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0 Is "near by" an elliptical construction or does it simply mean "nearby"? 0-
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0 By "Such the epitaphic comments" did he intend to say "such were the epitaphic comments" and is it a metaphor? 0-
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