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|    Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin    |
|    the crash    |
|    07 Aug 22 03:00:38    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 62ef009e       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 62d6ce5c       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20220304       EID: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32).       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-07-03       Alexander Koryagin:              AK> From the story about dr Jekyll & Hyde:       AK>       AK> ...I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror       AK> woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the       AK> crash of cymbals, and bounding from my bed, I rushed to       AK> the mirror.       AK>       AK> Why "the crash" not "a crash"?              Stevenson compares Jekyll's (I think) shock to that produced       by a sudden, sharp, and loud sound. And cymbals, struck       together with great force, make exactly such kind of sound.       He is referring not to *a* specific instance of crashing-       together of *a* specific pair of cymbals (there was none!),       but to a general quality of that action as a rerefence.              P.S.: I don't know why people read J&H as their first (and        often last) work by Stevenson, who is a great master        of the short story.              ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 16/0 19/10 37 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/130       SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 331 153/7715 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 360 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/111 112 113 206 317 424 426 428 470 664 700 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/5003 282/1038 301/1 317/3 320/119 219 319 322/0       SEEN-BY: 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 712/848       SEEN-BY: 4500/1 5020/1042       PATH: 221/6 1 320/219 229/426           |
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