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[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Carvill John wrote:

> Paul Mackin:
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>> "The road, which ought to be opening out into a broader highway,   
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> It's a RAIL road.
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> Hmmmmm. Ok, but would that open up "into a broader highway"?
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The sentence doesn't parse very well but the image I get of a hoped- 
for "broad highway" would be  a stretch of mainline track clearly  
leading out  of town and away from the feared  fate.  Instead we only  
get further imbedded into the dreaded heart of the city to the  
judgement from which there is no appeal.

Don't know where that last phrase originally comes from. Sounds  
Biblical in reference to the Last Judgement.

Proust uses almost the exact same phrase as translated in Swan's Way  
to to express the  fear that he can never become a writer,  becoming  
which being his hope for immortality.