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OttoJ Posted 12 years ago
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Saving grace of antiquity
situation:
My friend and I are looking for something in his house, which process sees us come upon a paper, which contains some enigmatic words about the ritual of his family, being aristocratic, and he says:
''It is rather an absurd business, this ritual of ours. But it has at least the saving grace of antiquity to excuse it. I have a copy of the questions and answers here if you care to run your eye over them.'Do the red words mean the only reason we still keep it is, it is an old thing, but not because it is of any practical value.
My friend and I are looking for something in his house, which process sees us come upon a paper, which contains some enigmatic words about the ritual of his family, being aristocratic, and he says:
''It is rather an absurd business, this ritual of ours. But it has at least the saving grace of antiquity to excuse it. I have a copy of the questions and answers here if you care to run your eye over them.'Do the red words mean the only reason we still keep it is, it is an old thing, but not because it is of any practical value.
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OttoJDo the red words mean the only reason we still keep it is, it is an old thing, but not because it is of any practical value.That's the meaning of the passage as a whole, not the meaning of just those four words. The idea of being impractical is similar to its being "an absurd business", not to the words "saving grace" or "antiquity".
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