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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
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wresting from things in themselves hints of ...
Can anybody help me with the following sentence. Which interpretation is OK?
And needless to say that Richard Wentworth in his artworks uses things in different usages or conditions that the usual ones. For example he uses a boot to keep a door open, a chocolate bar to prevent a bell from ringing, etc.
My interpretations:
1. wresting from things which in themselves have hints of an incoherent and tenuous...
2. wresting from things in themselves, which has hints of an incoherent and tenuous...
Context:
Richard Wentworth, addresses the world not through the straight broad highways of rational thought but in the messy byways and culs-de-sac of an industrialised world, wresting from things in themselves hints of an incoherent and tenuous human existence which is both poignant and funny.
And needless to say that Richard Wentworth in his artworks uses things in different usages or conditions that the usual ones. For example he uses a boot to keep a door open, a chocolate bar to prevent a bell from ringing, etc.
My interpretations:
1. wresting from things which in themselves have hints of an incoherent and tenuous...
2. wresting from things in themselves, which has hints of an incoherent and tenuous...
Context:
Richard Wentworth, addresses the world not through the straight broad highways of rational thought but in the messy byways and culs-de-sac of an industrialised world, wresting from things in themselves hints of an incoherent and tenuous human existence which is both poignant and funny.
Top answer
He is wresting hints (of an incoherent . .. ) from things (in themselves).
- He is wresting hints (of an incoherent .
- ..
- ) from things (in themselves).
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He is wresting hints (of an incoherent . . .. . .) from things (in themselves).
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oh, thank you. And does it mean "emptying and clearing things out of hints" or "extracting and representing hints that exist in things"? I think the second one should be OK. Yes?
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