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leaping lightning
Does it make sense to translate leaping lightning as rising lightning?
After a devastating medieval combat between mages and knights, all is shattered; in the sentence, the sword has magic powers:
He leveled the sword at the distant, leaning fountain, and watched the leaning stone topple slowly into complete collapse in the heart of leaping lightning.
We can guess the sword generates this leaping lightning, but I don't know what can leaping mean here.
Thanks for the assistance.
Last edited by Bushwhacker; 29-Nov-2009 at 09:12.
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Re: leaping lightning

Originally Posted by
Bushwhacker
Does it make sense to translate leaping lightning as rising lightning?
After a devastating medieval combat between mages and knights, all is shattered; in the sentence, the sword has magic powers:
He leveled the sword at the distant, leaning fountain, and watched the leaning stone topple slowly into complete collapse in the heart of leaping lightning.
We can guess the sword generates this leaping lightning, but I don't know what can leaping mean here.
Thanks for the assistance.
I would say it means "jumping in all directions".
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Re: leaping lightning

Originally Posted by
bhaisahab
I would say it means "jumping in all directions".
Do you mean a point, in which the fountain collapses, irradiating all sort of lightnings?
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Re: leaping lightning

Originally Posted by
Bushwhacker
Does it make sense to translate leaping lightning as rising lightning?
After a devastating medieval combat between mages and knights, all is shattered; in the sentence, the sword has magic powers:
He leveled the sword at the distant, leaning fountain, and watched the leaning stone topple slowly into complete collapse in the heart of leaping lightning.
We can guess the sword generates this leaping lightning, but I don't know what can leaping mean here.
Thanks for the assistance.
Hi Bushwhacker!
What do "leaning fountain" and "leaning stone" mean in this sentence? Not knowing a wider context it's hard to figure out!
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Re: leaping lightning

Originally Posted by
omasta
Hi Bushwhacker!
What do "leaning fountain" and "leaning stone" mean in this sentence? Not knowing a wider context it's hard to figure out!
I infer it's the same thing. The fountain, as a consequence of a big blast, has leaned hardly, and,of course, the fountain is made of stone.
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