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Aramahosi Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Fallow?

"There is a sense of emptiness that comes over us at evening, with the odor of the elephants after the rain and the sandalwood ashes growing cold in the braziers, a dizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble on the fallow curves of the planispheres where they are portrayed..."

I couldn't find the definition of fallow which fits this sentence. There's any definition I don't know or this is a creative use of the word?

The sentence is quoted from http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/CalvinoInvisibleCities.htm
  

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aramahosi this is a creative use of the word? Yes. The general idea is that the planispheres are somehow productive of the actual physical geography they represent.

— Mister Micawber

  • aramahosi this is a creative use of the word?
  • Yes.
  • The general idea is that the planispheres are somehow productive of the actual physical geography they represent.
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aramahosithis is a creative use of the word?
Yes. The general idea is that the planispheres are somehow productive of the actual physical geography they represent.
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I have one more question. Does the curve of the fallow curve represent the rim of the spherical map like the following image?

http://www.jpmaps.co.uk/map/id.34106
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I think it is just to create the mood, not refer to any specific curve. The use of planispheres is metaphoric; it is not supposed to be analyzed minutely.
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