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Cadzao Posted 19 years ago
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"This registers the amount of your purchase"
"The corpse of the Swede, alone in the saloon, had its eyes fixed upon a dreadful legend that dwelt a-top of the cash-machine. "This registers the amount of your purchase." (The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane http://www.4literature.net/Stephen_Crane/Blue_Hotel/9.html )
This short story had been written (by Stephen Crane) before 1900.
1. What is the "cash-machine" in the context? Is it the same one as the modern cash-machine (ATM)?
2. What does the author mean by the blue sentence?
Please help me!
Thank you very much in advance.
Cadzao
This short story had been written (by Stephen Crane) before 1900.
1. What is the "cash-machine" in the context? Is it the same one as the modern cash-machine (ATM)?
2. What does the author mean by the blue sentence?
Please help me!
Thank you very much in advance.
Cadzao
Top answer
mechanical cash register
- mechanical cash register
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I know I'm three years too late to help you, Cadzao, but for future searchers: The cash-machine is a cash register of the type used before the more modern electronic ones -- as someone else indicated, a mechanical cash register. The sentence in blue is one that I've always remembered since reading the story in 1975: "This registers the amount of your purchase." On any cash register, the
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