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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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Protagonist is one of Amber's princes able to use power of Pattern?Amber's another self and the irradiant, maze-like place.
He is walking through on Pattern with a pendant to get another power.
. . . And out, through, over, and done, in a blaze of ruddy light that found me regarding myself holding the pendant beside the Pattern, then regarding the pendant, Pattern within it, within me, everything within me, me within it, the redness subsiding, down, gone.
["Sign of the Unicorn" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if the underlined phrases modify the bold phrases.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is walking through on Pattern with a pendant to get another power.
. . . And out, through, over, and done, in a blaze of ruddy light that found me regarding myself holding the pendant beside the Pattern, then regarding the pendant, Pattern within it, within me, everything within me, me within it, the redness subsiding, down, gone.
["Sign of the Unicorn" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if the underlined phrases modify the bold phrases.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
No, I don't see that they do.
- No, I don't see that they do.
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Everything in the passage quoted seems to be describing the same thing, what is happening when he holds the pendant beside the Pattern - the Pattern seems to be within the pendant and within him, at the same time, a reddish light indicating that this is taking place.
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Thank you, GPY, for another very kind answer from you.
. . . And out, through, over, and done, in a blaze of ruddy light
. . . And out, through, over, and done, in a blaze of ruddy light
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"that found me regarding ..." is a relative clause modifying "blaze of ruddy light".
"in a blaze of ruddy light" modifies something mentioned earlier, or something implied by the context, to do with his actions or the situation generally.
"in a blaze of ruddy light" modifies something mentioned earlier, or something implied by the context, to do with his actions or the situation generally.
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