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string and brown paper and sealing wax
1. Do "string and brown paper and sealing wax" refer to the material letters were composed of in the past?
2. Does "this is" mean "the fact that the world was held together with string and brown paper and sealing wax" r generally things like that?
I grew up in a world held together with string and brown paper and sealing wax, and that’s how it was. I slowly realised that this is the underlying condition of the world, and there’s nothing I like more than when, for example, there’s been a near disaster at NASA and they say: ‘If it hadn’t been for the chewing gum . . . ’. It’s not because I want to fetishise chewing gum or the aesthetics of gum pressed over some break or membrane; it’s because we have the intelligence to think: ‘Hey, there’s a malleable, mastic material and we can use that’.
2. Does "this is" mean "the fact that the world was held together with string and brown paper and sealing wax" r generally things like that?
I grew up in a world held together with string and brown paper and sealing wax, and that’s how it was. I slowly realised that this is the underlying condition of the world, and there’s nothing I like more than when, for example, there’s been a near disaster at NASA and they say: ‘If it hadn’t been for the chewing gum . . . ’. It’s not because I want to fetishise chewing gum or the aesthetics of gum pressed over some break or membrane; it’s because we have the intelligence to think: ‘Hey, there’s a malleable, mastic material and we can use that’.
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red apple 1. Do "string and brown paper and sealing wax" refer to the material letters were composed of in the past? Not letters; packages.
- red apple 1.
- Do "string and brown paper and sealing wax" refer to the material letters were composed of in the past?
- Not letters; packages.
- But more generally, and metaphorically, it refers to any improvised and perhaps primitive way of dealing with the problems that confront us.
- red apple 2.
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red apple1. Do "string and brown paper and sealing wax" refer to the material letters were composed of in the past?Not letters; packages. But more generally, and metaphorically, it refers to any improvised and perhaps primitive way of dealing with the problems that confront us.
red apple2. Does "this is" mean "the fact that the world
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