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Stenka25 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
What does "it" stand for?
The below paragraph comes from "Man's Search for Meaning."
In this heart-wrung story, "it" of the last sentence is a bit tricky.
In a glance, I thought "it" is "the mental agony," but "the unreasonableness of the mental agony" seems a bit odd. In another glance, it seems that "such a moment" also can be "it" in a context.
Can you tell me what "it" is?
Once, the man behind me stood off a little to one side and that lack of symmetry displeased the SS guard. I did not know what was going on in the line behind me, nor in the mind of the SS guard, but suddenly I received two sharp blows on my head. Only then did I spot the guard at my side who was using his stick. At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
In this heart-wrung story, "it" of the last sentence is a bit tricky.
In a glance, I thought "it" is "the mental agony," but "the unreasonableness of the mental agony" seems a bit odd. In another glance, it seems that "such a moment" also can be "it" in a context.
Can you tell me what "it" is?
Once, the man behind me stood off a little to one side and that lack of symmetry displeased the SS guard. I did not know what was going on in the line behind me, nor in the mind of the SS guard, but suddenly I received two sharp blows on my head. Only then did I spot the guard at my side who was using his stick. At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
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Stenka25 it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all . it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of the whole experience (of being punished unjustly). CJ
- Stenka25 it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all .
- it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of the whole experience (of being punished unjustly).
- CJ
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Stenka25it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of the whole experience (of being punished unjustly).
CJ
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