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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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hello! Right now I'm reading a book by Ray Bradbury and I came across the sentence I cannot understand! Please,help!
"Elmo Crumley and I stepped into the tobacco smells of an eternally attic day"
How could you explane the meaning? Thank you
"Elmo Crumley and I stepped into the tobacco smells of an eternally attic day"
How could you explane the meaning? Thank you
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Anonymous Elmo Crumley and I stepped into the tobacco smells of an eternally attic day stepped into the tobacco smells ~ entered a room that smelled of tobacco of an eternally attic day ? , the smell of stale tobacco was mixed with the smell of a dusty storage space which people hardly ever visit. 'eternally attic day' is less easily paraphrased.
- Anonymous Elmo Crumley and I stepped into the tobacco smells of an eternally attic day stepped into the tobacco smells ~ entered a room that smelled of tobacco of an eternally attic day ?
- , the smell of stale tobacco was mixed with the smell of a dusty storage space which people hardly ever visit.
- 'eternally attic day' is less easily paraphrased.
- Others may find that the phrase evokes different images from those I suggested above.
- CJ
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AnonymousElmo Crumley and I stepped into the tobacco smells of an eternally attic daystepped into the tobacco smells ~ entered a room that smelled of tobacco
of an eternally attic day ?~ the smell seemed to have been in that room forever; it was reminiscent of the smell you experience when you spend a day in an attic, i.e., the s
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Anonymous"Elmo Crumley and I stepped into the tobacco smells of an eternally attic day"They stepped into the impermeable room of dust and tobacco smell.
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Anonymousimpermeable roomI don't think 'impermeable' is appropriate here.
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