MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5e4a59da   
   REPLY: 2:221/360.0 5e4a2f78   
   PID: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.23; i686-pc-mingw32)   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AK>>> "Aware  of  the  loud beating of my own heart I pulled   
   AK>>>  the door to against the increasing rain."   
   AK>>>   
   AK>>> So in normal language  the  sentence  will  look  like   
   AK>>> this:   
   AK>>> "...   I   closed   the  door  because  the  rain  was   
   AK>>> increasing."   
   AS>>   
   AS>> It has a different meaning for two reasons: "close" can   
   AS>> mean  more  than  just  pulling  to,  and there  is  no   
   AS>> indication  of increasing rain  in  the  original.   In   
   AS>> that sentence, Gatsby's language *is* normal, euphonic,   
   AS>> and brief.   
   AK>   
   AK> There is no indication of increasing rain?   
   AK> Why have you removed the citation?   
      
   Because of haste and lazyness :-(   
      
   Observe  that  it  does  not  matter  whether  the  rain  is   
   increasing  or  not insomuch as it is heavy and aslant, so I   
   propose to mark that it was increasing  in  a  parenthetical   
   expression:   
      
     He shut the door to block rain, which was increasing.   
      
   AK> IMHO  "shut"  speaks  clearly  about  the  result of the   
   AK> action.   
      
   I think it may imply locking.   
      
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