The meaning of ‘the italicized sentence’
The meaning of ‘the italicized sentence’
The passage below is from Fathoms: The World in the Whale Hardcover by Rebecca Giggs.
As the tour boat enters open water, I notice jellyfish. So many, splattered into the sea all around, as if dropped from great heights. Primordial things. Too soft to be harmed by the hull, they are the colour of tea. Theirs are some of the planet’s earliest eyes: simple ocelli, capable of perceiving light, though little else. The first things with faces were only faces, I think, looking at these jellies, gelatinous like beauty masks, scrolling past the boat. Is this a so-called ‘bloom’, or is it a natural aggregation? The question drifts away with the jellyfish in our lee. As yet, there are no whales to be spotted.
In this passage I cannot grasp the meaning of the italicized sentence.
When the author looked at those jellies that’s what she thought, but I cannot reach her thought.
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
As far as I can understand it, because the jellyfish have eyes, she considers them to also have "faces", with the "face" constituting the entire jellyfish (apart from the tentacles, I suppose). Because the whole of the jellyfish is a face, they are "only faces". This is the best sense that I can make of it.
- As far as I can understand it, because the jellyfish have eyes, she considers them to also have "faces", with the "face" constituting the entire jellyfish (apart from the tentacles, I suppose).
- Because the whole of the jellyfish is a face, they are "only faces".
- This is the best sense that I can make of it.
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As far as I can understand it, because the jellyfish have eyes, she considers them to also have "faces", with the "face" constituting the entire jellyfish (apart from the tentacles, I suppose). Because the whole of the jellyfish is a face, they are "only faces". This is the best sense that I can make of it.
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