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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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rooted in their bulk

0....his eyes lingering over the cars that were not what he had previously known as cars; vehicles, designed to carry passengers from one point to another; but 01u01b00whole establishments, solid and rooted in their bulk, all laboriously acquired: weightage, history, even an inheritance.02br
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00Can you, please, explain second part of the sentence?02br
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00Thanks!02br
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his eyes were lingering over the cars that were not what he had previously known as cars - vehicles, designed to carry passengers from one point to another - but 00whole establishments, solid and rooted in their bulk, all laboriously acquired: weightage, history, even an inheritance. Their backseats piled with baby seats, dog blankets, boxes of Kleenex, toys and mascots adhering to their windows like barnacles. 00 0-

  • his eyes were lingering over the cars that were not what he had previously known as cars - vehicles, designed to carry passengers from one point to another - but 00whole establishments, solid and rooted in their bulk, all laboriously acquired: weightage, history, even an inheritance.
  • Their backseats piled with baby seats, dog blankets, boxes of Kleenex, toys and mascots adhering to their windows like barnacles.
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00"00....his eyes were lingering over the cars that were not what he had previously known as cars - vehicles, designed to carry passengers from one point to another - but 00whole establishments, solid and rooted in their bulk, all laboriously acquired: weightage, history, even an inheritance. Their backseats piled with baby sea
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0 cars started to look like heavy buildings with a known distribution on population, history, inheritance ...02br
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00 Etymology: 01sup00202sup01i00weight + -age02br
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0 Thank you, Marius. You are the only person always replying to my questions.02br
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0G'day Diana,02br
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00In some societies cars are point a to point b things and are quite utilitarian. People use cars as a means of transporting people and that is that. Nothing else.02br
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00In the US things are different.02br
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00For a start; the cars are huge, solid, bulky things almost as big as a house.02
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5000 Thanks, Stannum!010id1

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