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Henry74 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Feeling to numbness

Hello,

This is a passage from a book I'm reading:

[An old man is posing as a nude model for an art class] - I sat. I stood. I rotated [...]. It went on, I don't know how long. Once I thought I would pass out. I cycled through feeling to numbness to feeling to numbness.

There are a couple of things I don't understand in the sentence in boldface.

1) Feeling to numbness.
Shouldn't there be a verb after to here?

2) The "to" in blu is a preposition, right? Is the structure Cycling through A to B standard? I would have expected Cycling between A and B.

Can you please help me?
Thank you!

H.
  

Top answer

Henry74 I cycled through feeling to numbness to feeling to numbness. The sentence makes no sense to me at all.

— Fivejedjon

  • Henry74 I cycled through feeling to numbness to feeling to numbness.
  • The sentence makes no sense to me at all.
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Henry74 I cycled through feeling to numbness to feeling to numbness.
The sentence makes no sense to me at all.
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fivejedjonThe sentence makes no sense to me at all.
I see. Thank you.

H.
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Based on what you've given, I would say this is awkwardly expressed. But the sense seems understandable: he's old and not able to pose for long periods of time (and moreover he's posing in the nude, which would likely be embarrassing for an old man), and so he becomes numb holding a stationary position, to the point of fainting. However, in certain contexts this might be okay - this is literatu
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