Reading Nyarlathotep by H.P. Lovecraft, I would like to ask if my understanding is correct: And shadowed on a screen, I saw hooded forms amidst ruins, and yellow evil faces peering from behind fallen monuments. As this "fronting" (I do not know how exactly this is called) is not really a concept I am well … Read more
Reading a story by A.C. Smith, I am unsure of the meaning of the following: Three days later found me at the railway station of my cousin’s native town. The village, tho it can scarce be called one, of X. At first, I thought that Smith just expresses that it is rather a village than … Read more
An excerpt from The Plague A word that conjured up in the doctor’s mind not only what science chose to put into it, but a whole series of fantastic possibilities utterly out of keeping with that gray and yellow town under his eyes, from which were rising the sounds of mild activity characteristic of the … Read more
Well, what if I make the drinks and you charge us your price on account of because we can mix the drinks we are mixing. (from the book Call Me by Your Name) How to understand the structure "on account of because," in which both mean the same thing? I think omitting either "on account … Read more
How to understand this quote from the book "call me by your name" To be who I am because of you. To be who he was because of me. I can’t figure out the syntactical parts of this sentence, either can’t I know the real meaning of this sentence. (I don’t even think it is … Read more
In a story by A. Blackwood, I am unable to find out the correct meaning of "screen" in the following sentence: Of the mutinous forces that lie so thinly screened behind life, dropping from time to time their faint, wireless messages upon the soul, Field-Martin hardly discerned the existence. In addition, how "upon the soul" … Read more
In a story I am reading, I would like to know what "ether-waves" mean: The odd thing really is that one should hear, but not see; that air-waves should bring the voice, yet ether-waves fail to bring the picture.” Could it be meant to mean the same, just using another word to avoid repeating "air"? … Read more
Reading an old story, I have some problems with understanding the following (esp. the part in bold): it was this very day fifty years ago—February 13—the man disappeared from its shadows; swept in this extraordinary, incredible fashion into invisibility— into some other place. My understanding (using simpler words where I am more certain about the … Read more
I have been reading a story by C.A. Smith, and I am not sure how the following can be understood: The afternoon had been utterly still and airless, with a sultry brooding in its silence. For the context: A lone tramp is roaming the land. A few sentences earlier he was thínking of his wife … Read more
Reading the story An Egyptian Hornet by A.Blackwood, I am not sure what to make of the following sentence: (for the context, a reverend hopes for a hornet to sting his enemy): “May God forgive me!” ran subconsciously through his mind. And side by side with the repentant prayer ran also a recognition of the … Read more
