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Aramahosi Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Roll up?

There is a sense of emptiness that comes over us at evening, with the odor of the elephants after the rain and the sandalwood ashes growing cold in the braziers, a dizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble on the fallow curves of the planispheres where they are portrayed, and rolls up, on after the other, the despatches announcing to us the collapse of the last enemy troops, from defeat to defeat, and flakes the wax of the seals of obscure kings who beseech our armies' protection, offering in exchange annual tributes of precious metals, tanned hides, and tortoise shell.

Could you tell me what the "rolls up" mean and what the subject of the verb is? Thanks in advance!

The sentence is quoted from http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/CalvinoInvisibleCities.htm
  

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a dizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble... and rolls up , one after the other, the despatches... Rolls up = brings to view, presents in order

— Mister Micawber

  • a dizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble...
  • and rolls up , one after the other, the despatches...
  • Rolls up = brings to view, presents in order
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...a dizziness that makes rivers and mountains tremble...and rolls up, one after the other, the despatches...

Rolls up = brings to view, presents in order
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Sorry for one more question .Does to bring to view mean to appear?
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