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Taka Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Life

A theatre is a shut, packed unity: crowd and performers are physically knit. And what the physical proximity of audience and stage does not effect, the emotions expressed on the stage supply. Humor, pathos, passion, dancing, music— these are all symbols enacted by the players and immediately current in the life of every man and woman watching.
How would you interpret 'the life' here?
  

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I'd say "immediately current" can only mean that at the exact moment the observer is witnessing a scene, the emotions of the theater are resonating within the memories of his life's experiences - his personality.

— Avangi

  • I'd say "immediately current" can only mean that at the exact moment the observer is witnessing a scene, the emotions of the theater are resonating within the memories of his life's experiences - his personality.
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I'd say "immediately current" can only mean that at the exact moment the observer is witnessing a scene, the emotions of the theater are resonating within the memories of his life's experiences - his personality.
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I might interpret "immediately current" to mean that the audience is vicariously living and experiencing what is happening on the stage, at the same moment it is happening on the stage.
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YankeeI might interpret "immediately current" to mean that the audience is vicariously living and experiencing what is happening on the stage, at the same moment it is happening on the stage.

So Amy, how would you 'the life' itself? How would you paraphrase it? 
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The closest definition in www.m-w.com is

2 a: the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual

In your excerpt I would interpret the life as the consciousness.

CJ
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That is the closest to my interpretation.
Thanks, Jim. 
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