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Johnson13 Posted 13 years ago
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went with Tolstoy
In 'Catastrophes in the air' is a sentence: Save for Lev Shestov, a literary critic and philosopher, Russian prose went with Tolstoy, only too glad to spare itself climbing the heights of Dostoevsky's spiritual pitch.
First of all, GO WITH has several senses:
1.The house goes with the job.(to be included as part of something
2.Ill-health often goes with poverty. (to often exist with something else
3.Let's go with John's original proposal. (to accept someone's idea or plan
But in my dictionaries I just can't find one that fits into the above the sentence. Could you tell me what it exactly means by WENT WITH?
The phrase ONLY TOO, according to my LDOCE, means VERY:
1.Prices have risen sharply, as we know only too well.
2.Mark was only too happy to agree with her.
But ITSELF obviously refers to PROSE, which has added to my confusion only; the whole part from WENT WITH is inscrutable. Could you tell me what it means? (eg SPIRITUAL PITCH is already an indecipherable phrase)
First of all, GO WITH has several senses:
1.The house goes with the job.(to be included as part of something
2.Ill-health often goes with poverty. (to often exist with something else
3.Let's go with John's original proposal. (to accept someone's idea or plan
But in my dictionaries I just can't find one that fits into the above the sentence. Could you tell me what it exactly means by WENT WITH?
The phrase ONLY TOO, according to my LDOCE, means VERY:
1.Prices have risen sharply, as we know only too well.
2.Mark was only too happy to agree with her.
But ITSELF obviously refers to PROSE, which has added to my confusion only; the whole part from WENT WITH is inscrutable. Could you tell me what it means? (eg SPIRITUAL PITCH is already an indecipherable phrase)
Top answer
Went with = disappeared when Tolstoy died.
- Went with = disappeared when Tolstoy died.
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The writer got a little carried away. Brodsky again? This is what you get when a genius poet writes prose. The way I read it:
Russian prose died when Tolstoy did. It was happy it was dead, because that way it would not have
The writer got a little carried away. Brodsky again? This is what you get when a genius poet writes prose. The way I read it:
Russian prose died when Tolstoy did. It was happy it was dead, because that way it would not have
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Thanks.
Yes, it's Brodsky again, and I hope you don't mind me asking questions about this writer's prose~~~
I have been all the more interested in him since you told me he is a genius, and your explanation is really telling~~
Yes, it's Brodsky again, and I hope you don't mind me asking questions about this writer's prose~~~
I have been all the more interested in him since you told me he is a genius, and your explanation is really telling~~
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Johnson13Yes, it's Brodsky again, and I hope you don't mind me asking questions about this writer's proseNot in the least. I find it quite interesting.
Johnson13I have been all the more interested in him since you told me he is a geniusI don't know that he was, but look at it. A Russian-born impoverished Jew who almost die
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