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Pructus Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

hottop

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00It came on, eating up the blue sky and the fresh black 01u00hottop02u00 with equal ease. Even twenty feet away the line of demarcation was perfectly clear. I had the nutty feeling that I was watching some extra-good piece of visual effects, something dreamed up by Willys O'Brian or Douglas Trumbull. It happened so quickly. 02br
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00The blue sky disappeared 01u00to a wide swipe02u00, then to a stripe, then to a pencil line. Then it was gone. Blank white pressed against the glass of the wide show window. I could see as far as the litter barrel that stood maybe four feet away, but not much farther. I could see the front bumper of my Scout, but that' was all.02br
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00Above is from Mist by Stephen King...02br
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00(1) It's hard to figure what hottop is....02br
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00What is hottop?02br
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00(2) The blue sky disappeared to a wide swipe.... To a swipe? What should it mean?02br
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00The dictionary is saying that swipe is "A sweeping blow or stroke". 02br
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00But still difficult to figure out the meaning....0-
  

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0Hi,02br 02br 00I haven't heard this expression before, but I think it refers to the asphalt that is used to form the surface of a road. 02br 02br 02br 00This quite is from S. KIng's 'Night Shift'.

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 00I haven't heard this expression before, but I think it refers to the asphalt that is used to form the surface of a road.
  • 02br 02br 02br 00This quite is from S.
  • KIng's 'Night Shift'.
  • pdf 02font 02br 02br 01font 00I can see great convoys of trucks filling the Okefenokee Swamp with sand, the bulldozers ripping through the national parks and02font 02br 02br 01font 00wildlands, grading the earth flat, stamping it into one great flat plain.
  • 02font 02br 02br 00Perhaps it's an expression used mainly in the region that the author lives in.
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0Hi,02br
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00I haven't heard this expression before, but I think it refers to the asphalt that is used to form the surface of a road. It is laid when it is in 'hot liquid' form.02br
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00This quite is from S. KIng's 'Night Shift'. 01font00dc19.4shared.com/download/35854268/01wbr007d99cba1/01b
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0Thanks Guru!!0-

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