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Lucrezia Posted 15 years ago
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His wishing her better
The underlined sentence seems a bit awkward to me. Could you please rephrase it?
A girl is talking about her husband, who is a cold, practical man during the day, and a gentle poet during the night (after a few drinks). So she describes that as two different worlds.
"The undrinkable brew – for she had tried the whisky – must be a secret door to another world, one infinitely more beautiful than the one he lived in during the day. Every night he opened it and they walked through the darkness to a storehouse of grandeur. She knew that when dawn came, that world would disappear into thin air. And then it became once more a parade of blame, cold regard, and the deliberate negation of her very existence. That only while they stopped there it pressed upon him, his wishing her better."
Thanks!
A girl is talking about her husband, who is a cold, practical man during the day, and a gentle poet during the night (after a few drinks). So she describes that as two different worlds.
"The undrinkable brew – for she had tried the whisky – must be a secret door to another world, one infinitely more beautiful than the one he lived in during the day. Every night he opened it and they walked through the darkness to a storehouse of grandeur. She knew that when dawn came, that world would disappear into thin air. And then it became once more a parade of blame, cold regard, and the deliberate negation of her very existence. That only while they stopped there it pressed upon him, his wishing her better."
Thanks!
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That only while they stopped there it pressed upon him, his wishing her better . = that only while he was drunk did he think of her in that better light (the storehouse of grandeur).
- That only while they stopped there it pressed upon him, his wishing her better .
- = that only while he was drunk did he think of her in that better light (the storehouse of grandeur).
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That only while they stopped there it pressed upon him, his wishing her better. = that only while he was drunk did he think of her in that better light (the storehouse of grandeur).
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