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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Get weighted down?
1) Does "get weighted down" mean "get suppressed"?
2) Does "had been banging on" mean "had frequented"?
Context:
"We are too subservient to linear time. It's just lassitude that gets us in the end. We get weighted down by gravity and inertia. Then we succumb."
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?
More:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029482.100-short-story-images-of-undiluted-love.html?page=2
2) Does "had been banging on" mean "had frequented"?
Context:
"We are too subservient to linear time. It's just lassitude that gets us in the end. We get weighted down by gravity and inertia. Then we succumb."
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?
More:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029482.100-short-story-images-of-undiluted-love.html?page=2
Top answer
1) More burdened than suppressed. 2) "banging on" means speaking at length about a topic one feels strongly about, to the point where it becomes tedious to others.
- 1) More burdened than suppressed.
- 2) "banging on" means speaking at length about a topic one feels strongly about, to the point where it becomes tedious to others.
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1) More burdened than suppressed.
2) "banging on" means speaking at length about a topic one feels strongly about, to the point where it becomes tedious to others.
2) "banging on" means speaking at length about a topic one feels strongly about, to the point where it becomes tedious to others.
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