Subj : Some questions
To   : Paul Quinn
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Sun Aug 27 2017 04:16:53

Hi, Paul Quinn!
I read your message from  25.08.2017 10:47
about Some questions.

 ak>> I am reading an short Australian story and sometimes I have
 ak>> difficulties in reading. For instance this page (the places marked
 ak>> by color):

 PQ> Ooh, Aussie-speak. I know this. :)

 PQ> The first highlight refers to what you may know as a fuse-box on a
 PQ> house. Here, they are mounted on the outside of a house and also
 PQ> serve as the initial point of the household's electricity supply.
 PQ> Hence the reference to the meter. The meter is placed so that a
 PQ> company representative may read the meter, for which usage the
 PQ> householder will be later invoiced. The box normally has a door/lid
 PQ> but is usually not locked (unless there is an agreed arrangement
 PQ> with the company). It would make a neat hiding place for her flat-
 PQ> mate's key albeit not a very secure place.

I see. In Russia we have a kind of electric boards/shields, but, IMHO, it would 
be the last place where to search for keys. ;-) In addition, there are no 
secret nooks in such boxes.

 PQ> The other highlighted passage, along with the preceding paragraph
 PQ> seem to draw heavily on metaphors. In fact the whole page seems to
 PQ> have a romantic 'bent'.

This page is a good substance for smoking. I found two more places where I feel 
bad. :) Now I printed it down and "smoke" it.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4vhI2LJjxi5OGNVbEI3UmotWFE

 PQ>  Now, I have been called an unromantic
 PQ> cranky old bastard for over 30 years. (I like to think otherwise,
 PQ> so the abuse is suffered as would water off the back of a duck; it
 PQ> is accepted but not taken seriously.) In any case, I'm thinking the
 PQ> bloke doesn't like being by himself in a lonely car park;

I feel it too. :) But I somehow can't swallow the phrases like "There could be 
no meaning in the asphalted space, the parked cars, the harsh light. From some 
immense distance he viewed it and it did not contain him."

 PQ> he doesn't relish going back to where he must go back; but most of
 PQ> all, he doesn't particularly care to be anywhere without... her.

 PQ> How did I score? Are you going to tell me that the girl is only a
 PQ> second cousin? ;-)

You were good, but how to be with "But the trees would be drawing about the 
darkening road, and the paddocks and rises stretches into the distance."

She was a girl he had met a day before. This is a novel "Party", by Peter 
Cowan. I couldn't find it in the Internet -- I read it from an old book, 
published in English in the USSR, 1975.


Bye, Paul!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017

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