So much as " a shadow that moved with it's intent"?
Hello everybody.
Our magazine had occupied the same space for
more than a decade. Before us was a branding agency, before them, the ad
men, before them, a Berlitz language center, before them, a Pan Am call
center. Really, it could’ve been anyone haunting the halls. It wasn’t a figure,
he clarified, so much as “a shadow that moved with its own intent.”
Could I believe some poor schmuck had used its break from eternal damnation to watch the light on our copy machine plead for a refill? I shook my head. What I could not believe was that we were having this conversation.
I know they are talking about ghosts, but I can't figure out the bold part.
There was no one going and coming in the halls, it wasn't a human, even it wasn't a shadow?
Thanks ??
Top answer
The narrator is reporting to us the story that his interlocutor is relating. That person is saying that it could have been anyone, and that it wasn't a three-dimensional shape but a shadow. The formula is "not X so much as Y"—although it did resemble X, in reality it was more like Y.
- The narrator is reporting to us the story that his interlocutor is relating.
- That person is saying that it could have been anyone, and that it wasn't a three-dimensional shape but a shadow.
- The formula is "not X so much as Y"—although it did resemble X, in reality it was more like Y.
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The narrator is reporting to us the story that his interlocutor is relating. That person is saying that it could have been anyone, and that it wasn't a three-dimensional shape but a shadow. The formula is "not X so much as Y"—although it did resemble X, in reality it was more like Y.
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