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What was “standard shift” in the 1920's?

meaning historical-context f-scott-fitzgerald the-great-gatsby
Feb 15 at 21:11 bobble 2,180
 
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What does “chafed” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Feb 26 '19 at 1:52 Community♦ 1
 
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What does “an affront to the common store of life” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Aug 9 '18 at 8:16 Community♦ 1
 
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What does “that most limited of all specialists” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Apr 14 '18 at 12:46 DJohnson 345
 
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What does “An' hoo says hoo can tell when hoo's hurt” mean in this context?

elizabeth-gaskell mary-barton
Sep 26 at 15:42 Rand al'Thor♦ 51.1k
 
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What does “Am I sick?” mean in this context?

meaning sinclair-lewis main-street
Aug 31 '18 at 18:26 muru 6,251
 
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What does “snow in the crevices of a boggy bank” mean here?

meaning sinclair-lewis main-street
Aug 20 '18 at 10:18 Rand al'Thor♦ 51.1k
 
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What does “the facts about themselves” mean here?

meaning evelyn-waugh
Apr 4 '18 at 10:50 Aethelbald 162
 
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What does “which comes at the two changes of the year” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Aug 8 '18 at 5:40 Chappo Hasn't Forgotten Monica 1,206
 
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What does “The none too savory ramifications by which” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Apr 12 '18 at 19:08 heather 4,217
 
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What does “the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Apr 12 '18 at 10:50 Matt Thrower 13.3k
 
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What does “if we had room for him” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Mar 28 '18 at 11:34 Community♦ 1
 
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What does “made notes for a little thesis” mean here?

meaning evelyn-waugh
Mar 24 '18 at 20:27 verbose 10.1k
 
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What does “Hoo's fully resolved t' sew up meawth an' eend” mean in “Mary Barton”?

meaning elizabeth-gaskell mary-barton
Feb 15 at 0:42 bobble 2,180
 
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What does “whose shadows were all about her” modify in this text?

sinclair-lewis main-street
Dec 31 at 2:24 Tsundoku♦ 27.2k
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What does “I wished it could be us out there.” mean in this context?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 20 at 18:08 scc 11
 
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What does “wade through its lunar landscape” mean in this context?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 17 at 8:45 Roger Smith 41
 
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What does “the protecting canvas unrolled from Gatsby’s grave” mean?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Sep 1 at 2:31 Community♦ 1
 
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What does “ought to make a good thing out of this” mean in “New Grub Street”?

meaning george-gissing new-grub-street
Aug 30 '19 at 8:10 CinCout 708
 
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What does “rather vaguely conceived sweetness and light” mean in this context?

meaning sinclair-lewis main-street
Aug 23 '18 at 15:48 Josh Friedlander 399
 
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What does “our identity with this country” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Apr 16 '18 at 19:42 Aethelbald 162
 
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What does “snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts” mean here?

meaning the-great-gatsby f-scott-fitzgerald
Mar 31 '18 at 21:38 Spagirl 8,143
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Does “Like an unwritten piece of paper” mean like a paper that is literally blank in this passage?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 19 at 17:22 bobble 2,180
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What does “Behind it lay the nuns’ convent, their cloister with its orchards and grazing cows…” mean here?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 19 at 14:01 Tsundoku♦ 27.2k
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What does “I need to check on somebody” mean in this context?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 19 at 13:00 Tsundoku♦ 27.2k
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What does “referred from the centre for student accommodation” mean in this context?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 19 at 9:51 Tsundoku♦ 27.2k
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What does “There was so much I could not get enough of, so much I would never be able to grasp or possess, no matter how much I tried.” mean here?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 18 at 22:08 Tsundoku♦ 27.2k
 
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What does “a prophecy I was unable to read” mean in this context?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 17 at 22:07 Gustavson 351
 
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What does “It was hard to move in.” mean in this context?

meaning swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski
Dec 17 at 8:08 CinCout 708
 
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What does “for bad's come over her” mean in this context?

meaning elizabeth-gaskell mary-barton
Aug 19 at 13:42 Peter Shor 5,379
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