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|    Michael Dukelsky to Ardith Hinton    |
|    From a book    |
|    17 Oct 18 13:08:38    |
      Hello Ardith,              Tuesday October 16 2018, Ardith Hinton wrote to Alexander Koryagin:               AK>> -----Beginning of the citation-----        AK>> The bus chugged westward. On both sides of the streets        AK>> were interesting buildings. The Cowboy's Retreat was a        AK>> log cabin fronted with flashing neon lights. The Emerald        AK>> Crown was a hotel shaped like a wedding cake with a carpet        AK>> that rolled down to the road like a green beach meeting        AK>> a tarmac sea.        AK>> ----- The end of the citation -----               AK>> What is a green beach, what is a tarmac sea, and how        AK>> can they meet?               AH> The word "like" tells me the author is making a comparison        AH> here... technically a simile. I imagine the carpet as a lawn,        AH> possibly made of fake grass, and the tarmac sea as a paved road.        AH> Apparently one part of this lawn ends at the side of the road, i.e.        AH> the lawn & the road come into contact.              This is what I meant except I thought of not fake but real grass.               AH> In any case, the narrator is thinking of it as a beach adjacent to the        AH> sea.... :-)              Exactly.              BTW I was named a bad boy here but I consider it a compliment, since I was a       boy very long ago. :)              Michael              ... node (at) f1042 (dot) ru       --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303        * Origin: Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042)    |
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