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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The protagonist is a royal member of Amber and one of the Courts of Chaos.
He was just now transported by the Pattern to a very strange Shadow as blacking out.
The Pattern is god-like being of Order and The Logrus is one of Chaos.
Shadows are parellal worlds of Amber of Chaos.
The protagonist is now talking to his sentient weapon Frakir through telepathy.
It is the nature of this land, which lies between the shadows, that it be mainly inaccessible both to the Pattern and the Logrus.
A sort of demilitarized zone?
No, it is not a matter of truce. it is simply that it is extremely difficult for either of them to manifest her at all. This is why the place is pretty much unchanging.
["Knight of Shadows" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know "it" refers to the underlined "that" clause.
And I'd like to know why "be" is used, not "is."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He was just now transported by the Pattern to a very strange Shadow as blacking out.
The Pattern is god-like being of Order and The Logrus is one of Chaos.
Shadows are parellal worlds of Amber of Chaos.
The protagonist is now talking to his sentient weapon Frakir through telepathy.
It is the nature of this land, which lies between the shadows, that it be mainly inaccessible both to the Pattern and the Logrus.
A sort of demilitarized zone?
No, it is not a matter of truce. it is simply that it is extremely difficult for either of them to manifest her at all. This is why the place is pretty much unchanging.
["Knight of Shadows" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know "it" refers to the underlined "that" clause.
And I'd like to know why "be" is used, not "is."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon I'd like to know "it" refers to the underlined "that" clause. In the sense that the meaning is "that it be mainly inaccessible ... is the nature of this land", yes.
- park sang joon I'd like to know "it" refers to the underlined "that" clause.
- In the sense that the meaning is "that it be mainly inaccessible ...
- is the nature of this land", yes.
- " "be" is a subjunctive, but I'm not sure that a subjunctive is totally justified in this instance.
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park sang joonI'd like to know "it" refers to the underlined "that" clause.In the sense that the meaning is "that it be mainly inaccessible ... is the nature of this land", yes.
park sang joonAnd I'd like to know why "be" is used, not "is.""be" is a subjunctive, but I'm not sure that a subjunctive is totally justified in t
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