another bit of strange language

by Oedipa

Posted to Utterances on 2001-06-13 13:34:00

Parent message is 4515
I’m reading Lord Jim and found this to be the weirdest sentence:

Thus a poor mortal seduced by the charm of an apparition might have tried to wring from another ghost the tremendous secret of the claim the other world holds over a disembodied soul astray amongst the passions of this earth.



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