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Flowersun2013 Posted 13 years ago
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Whatever other generalizations can be made about the arts since the Renaissance, a fact with which we can hardly quarrel is that the means of preserving and distributing the literature of the past have immeasurably increased, and to such a point that we now have confronting the artist a vast array of varied achievement, existing and constantly multiplying in an "eternal present."
I don't understand the grammar of "have confronting the artist a vast array of varied achievement." I know have someone do something, e.g. "I'll have Tom do it."
A second question is what does "eternal present" mean here?
Basically I don't understand the last sentence starting from "we now have confronting..." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...
I don't understand the grammar of "have confronting the artist a vast array of varied achievement." I know have someone do something, e.g. "I'll have Tom do it."
A second question is what does "eternal present" mean here?
Basically I don't understand the last sentence starting from "we now have confronting..." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...
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"we now have confronting the artist a vast array of varied achievement" is an inverted way of saying "we now have a vast array of varied achievement confronting the artist". " "eternal present" is referring to a situation in which things are not lost to the past but can be permanently preserved and therefore effectively continue to exist in the present.
- "we now have confronting the artist a vast array of varied achievement" is an inverted way of saying "we now have a vast array of varied achievement confronting the artist".
- " "eternal present" is referring to a situation in which things are not lost to the past but can be permanently preserved and therefore effectively continue to exist in the present.
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"we now have confronting the artist a vast array of varied achievement" is an inverted way of saying "we now have a vast array of varied achievement confronting the artist". In this case, "we have..." is more or less just a way of stating the existence of something, pretty similar to "there is..."
"eternal present" is referring to a situation in which things are not lost to the past but c
"eternal present" is referring to a situation in which things are not lost to the past but c
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flowersun2013I don't understand the grammar of "have confronting the artist a vast array of varied achievement." I know have someone do something, e.g. "I'll have Tom do it."It is similar.
we now have confronting the artist a vast array = There now exists a vast array that is confronting the artist
flowersun2013A second
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