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   Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from 07.08.2022 03:00   
      
     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"?   
     AS> Stevenson compares Jekyll's (I think) shock to that produced   
     AS> by a sudden, sharp, and loud sound.  And cymbals, struck   
     AS> together with great force, make exactly such kind of sound.   
     AS> He is referring not to*a*  specific instance of crashing-   
     AS> together of*a*  specific pair of cymbals (there was none!),   
     AS> but to a general quality of that action as a rerefence.   
      
   I see your point.   
      
   --reference.   
      
     AS> P.S.: I don't know why people read J&H as their first (and   
     AS>        often last) work by Stevenson, who is a great master   
     AS>        of the short story.   
      
   Who are the people you are talking about? ;-)   
      
   There is a teaching school which practices such a method. They think it    
   is the most effective way to learn words, and they publish books like these:   
      
   https://i.ibb.co/0y1FZNh/Kaplan-books.jpg   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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