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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
What does the following quote mean?
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
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Hi, Literally, it means people can die there, get killed there. (Maybe the books all fall on their heads? ) However, it may perhaps have a more figurative meaning in a literary context, eg perhaps a person can lose what they see as their purpose in life, or perhaps simply waste their life by sitting in libraries.
- Hi, Literally, it means people can die there, get killed there.
- (Maybe the books all fall on their heads?
- ) However, it may perhaps have a more figurative meaning in a literary context, eg perhaps a person can lose what they see as their purpose in life, or perhaps simply waste their life by sitting in libraries.
- Clive
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Hi,
Literally, it means people can die there, get killed there. (Maybe the books all fall on their heads?
)
However, it may perhaps have a more figurative meaning in a literary context, eg perhaps a person can lose what they see as their purpose in life, or perhaps simply waste their life by sitting in libraries
Literally, it means people can die there, get killed there. (Maybe the books all fall on their heads?
)However, it may perhaps have a more figurative meaning in a literary context, eg perhaps a person can lose what they see as their purpose in life, or perhaps simply waste their life by sitting in libraries
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Try a Google search, with the entire quote in quotation marks: you'll find several interesting references to Bellow, including some possible explanations of what he meant here.
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