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Marius Hancu
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:11 am
Post subject: which, did we deserve them, should be ours always |
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Hello:
I wonder if in following paragraph
"did we deserve them, should be ours always"
means
"if we did deserve them, should be ours always"?
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It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil,
divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind it,
single, distinct, the hare erect; the wave falling; the boat rocking;
which, DID we deserve them, should be ours always. But alas, divine
goodness, twitching the cord, draws the curtain; it does not please
him; he covers his treasures in a drench of hail, and so breaks them,
so confuses them that it seems impossible that their calm should ever
return or that we should ever compose from their fragments a perfect
whole or read in the littered pieces the clear words of truth. For our
penitence deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91t/part2.html
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Thank you.
Marius Hancu |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:11 am
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"Marius Hancu" <NOSPAM@videotron.ca> wrote in message
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Hello:
I wonder if in following paragraph
"did we deserve them, should be ours always"
means
"if we did deserve them, should be ours always"?
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It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil,
divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind it,
single, distinct, *the hare erect;*
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Is that really something that needs to be displayed?
Mike G. |
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Stunz
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:11 am
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Yes, that's how I would read it.
"Marius Hancu" <NOSPAM@videotron.ca> wrote in message
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Hello:
I wonder if in following paragraph
"did we deserve them, should be ours always"
means
"if we did deserve them, should be ours always"?
--------
It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil,
divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind it,
single, distinct, the hare erect; the wave falling; the boat rocking;
which, DID we deserve them, should be ours always. But alas, divine
goodness, twitching the cord, draws the curtain; it does not please
him; he covers his treasures in a drench of hail, and so breaks them,
so confuses them that it seems impossible that their calm should ever
return or that we should ever compose from their fragments a perfect
whole or read in the littered pieces the clear words of truth. For our
penitence deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91t/part2.html
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Thank you.
Marius Hancu |
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Raymond S. Wise
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:08 pm
Post subject: Re: which, did we deserve them, should be ours always |
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Marius Hancu wrote:
| Quote: | Hello:
I wonder if in following paragraph
"did we deserve them, should be ours always"
means
"if we did deserve them, should be ours always"?
--------
It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil,
divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind it,
single, distinct, the hare erect; the wave falling; the boat rocking;
which, DID we deserve them, should be ours always. But alas, divine
goodness, twitching the cord, draws the curtain; it does not please
him; he covers his treasures in a drench of hail, and so breaks them,
so confuses them that it seems impossible that their calm should ever
return or that we should ever compose from their fragments a perfect
whole or read in the littered pieces the clear words of truth. For
our
penitence deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91t/part2.html
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Thank you.
Marius Hancu
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| Quote: | From *The Guide to Grammar and Writing,* sponsored by the Capital
Community College Foundation, at |
http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/conditional.htm
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*Other Forms of Conditional Statements*
The conditional can also be signaled by means of a subject-verb
inversion. This inversion replaces the word "if"; it is inappropriate
to use both the word "if" and the subject-verb inversion in the same
sentence.
· Were Judita a better student, she would have a better relationship
with her instructors.
· Had Judita studied harder last fall, she would not have to take so
many courses this spring.
[end quote]
--
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com |
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Marius Hancu
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:18 am
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Stunz wrote:
| Quote: | Yes, that's how I would read it.
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Thanks to you and Raymond Wise for the replies.
Unfortunately, his article is not on my server, just at Google.
Marius Hancu |
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