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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Except it wasn't?
1) "except it wasn't" mean? it was a video very tangible so it was "strands of light." And now you said it wasn't? How to understand this?
2) "and then lost it all himself" means "and then (the expert) lost money all himself"?
Context:
I recognised it as a video from long ago. Guy had filmed everything, obsessively. He was one of the pioneers of the webcam. It was just a video from some party, where I had been banging on. But then, there was the further question: how had Guy fattened it out, converted it into something so... almost tangible?
Technology was never my strong suit.
Of course, it was Guy's.
I stepped around the "I" creature.
"We are stardust," it was saying. "We are strands of light" – except it wasn't. I shut the door behind myself. Against "myself".
Guy was always a weirdo, I was thinking. And why?
Why me?
In the next room, there was some trap sprung for another poor guest. Another totem, droning on about the unreality of debt. I got the joke – I imagined that man had been some kind of financial expert. He had told everyone what to do with their money and then lost it all himself. Of course, Guy, I thought.
2) "and then lost it all himself" means "and then (the expert) lost money all himself"?
Context:
I recognised it as a video from long ago. Guy had filmed everything, obsessively. He was one of the pioneers of the webcam. It was just a video from some party, where I had been banging on. But then, there was the further question: how had Guy fattened it out, converted it into something so... almost tangible?
Technology was never my strong suit.
Of course, it was Guy's.
I stepped around the "I" creature.
"We are stardust," it was saying. "We are strands of light" – except it wasn't. I shut the door behind myself. Against "myself".
Guy was always a weirdo, I was thinking. And why?
Why me?
In the next room, there was some trap sprung for another poor guest. Another totem, droning on about the unreality of debt. I got the joke – I imagined that man had been some kind of financial expert. He had told everyone what to do with their money and then lost it all himself. Of course, Guy, I thought.
Top answer
The "We are strands of light" thing is part of the theory that the speaker is expounding. It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it is on a video. "except it wasn't" must refer to "it was saying".
- The "We are strands of light" thing is part of the theory that the speaker is expounding.
- It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it is on a video.
- "except it wasn't" must refer to "it was saying".
- All I can guess is that the video was, as far as he was concerned, no longer saying anything because he had shut the door on it and therefore could no longer hear it.
- It is not terribly clear.
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The "We are strands of light" thing is part of the theory that the speaker is expounding. It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it is on a video. "except it wasn't" must refer to "it was saying". All I can guess is that the video was, as far as he was concerned, no longer saying anything because he had shut the door on it and therefore could no longer hear it. It is not terribly clear.
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