Twin currents?
Hello everybody.
I am reading How Do You Live by Genzaburo Yoshino.
FromNihonbashi on the right side, flowing beneath him to Shinbashi on the
left, and from there in the opposite direction, from the left side back to
Nihonbashi, the twin currents slipped past each other, waxing and
waning as they went.
Would you please tell me what the twin currents mean? Are they rivers or does the writer mean the current of cars by the stream?
In the following, it reads Here and there between the two streams, a trolley
crawled sluggishly by, looking somehow world-weary.
So I can't imagine the picture the writer is trying to make.
Thanks ??
Top answer
It sounds like he is standing on an overpass looking at the cars on the road below him. He likens the lines of moving cars to rivers flowing next to each other in opposite directions. There is a rail line in the median where the much slower trolley goes.
- It sounds like he is standing on an overpass looking at the cars on the road below him.
- He likens the lines of moving cars to rivers flowing next to each other in opposite directions.
- There is a rail line in the median where the much slower trolley goes.
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It sounds like he is standing on an overpass looking at the cars on the road below him. He likens the lines of moving cars to rivers flowing next to each other in opposite directions. There is a rail line in the median where the much slower trolley goes.
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