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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Help! I can't understand this paragraph from NYTimes.
I was reading an article in NYTimes and among other difficult lines, this one holds me like an hour.
I just don't get it, so could anybody please transform this paragraph easier so I can understand what the writer tries to say?
Thank you so much!
-Nor have Hypatia’s writings survived; yet, the exquisite, if passive performance of her death in the early fifth century has not ceased to fascinate us.
I just don't get it, so could anybody please transform this paragraph easier so I can understand what the writer tries to say?
Thank you so much!
-Nor have Hypatia’s writings survived; yet, the exquisite, if passive performance of her death in the early fifth century has not ceased to fascinate us.
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Nor have Hypatia’s writings survived = None of her writing exists now. yet, the exquisite, if passive performance of her death in the early fifth century has not ceased to fascinate us. = however, the manner of her death in the early 5th century is still very interesting.
- Nor have Hypatia’s writings survived = None of her writing exists now.
- yet, the exquisite, if passive performance of her death in the early fifth century has not ceased to fascinate us.
- = however, the manner of her death in the early 5th century is still very interesting.
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Nor have Hypatia’s writings survived = None of her writing exists now.
yet, the exquisite, if passive performance of her death in the early fifth century has not ceased to fascinate us. = however, the manner of her death in the early 5th century is still very interesting.
yet, the exquisite, if passive performance of her death in the early fifth century has not ceased to fascinate us. = however, the manner of her death in the early 5th century is still very interesting.
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Hi Anon
Just a brief footnote to Mr M
The life and death of Hypatia has been dramatised more than once in recent times. I guess your quote is from a review of such a drama
So "performance" may mean literally, a dramatic performance, rather than just the manner of her death. Historically, the manner of her death was horrific, but it may have been acted exquisitely
Just a brief footnote to Mr M
The life and death of Hypatia has been dramatised more than once in recent times. I guess your quote is from a review of such a drama
So "performance" may mean literally, a dramatic performance, rather than just the manner of her death. Historically, the manner of her death was horrific, but it may have been acted exquisitely
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