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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
What does "there was so sense" mean?
Does it mean "there existed such meaning"?
Context:
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on
an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband
that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and
not only the husband and wif e themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully
conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray
people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the
family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home
for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and
wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new
Context:
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on
an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband
that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and
not only the husband and wif e themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully
conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray
people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the
family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home
for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and
wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new
Top answer
NL888 there was so sense in their living together, = There was no good reason for their living together.
- NL888 there was so sense in their living together, = There was no good reason for their living together.
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NL888there was so sense in their living together,= There was no good reason for their living together.
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NL888Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living togetherthere was no sense in their living together
~ there was no reason for them to live together
~ it was irrational for them to live together
That is, they had nothing in common. They might as well have been a collection of people randomly chosen off the streets.
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CalifJimThis is, of course, the beginning of the greatest novel ever writtenYeah? You and whose army??
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Mister MicawberYou and whose army??It's the opinion of Orhan Pamuk, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. In a televised interview he claimed that Anna Karenina is "the one to beat" for all novelists who aspire to greatness. It turns out that I had held that opinion even before I saw the interview, so I was full of self-congratulatory feel
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