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Hello everyone. I encountered this expression, "that other girl ... that crude and unsatisfactory experiment", and I am wondering what it means in the following sentences:
He lay still and considered sleep. But it was a tantalizingly evasive subject.
Think about women then or eating. Think about eating women, eating men, crunching up Alfred, that other girl, that boy, that crude and unsatisfactory experiment, lie restful as a log and consider the gnawed tunnel of life right up to this uneasy intermission.
- William Golding, Pincher Martin, Chapter 6
This is a novel published in the United Kingdom in 1956. The novel mainly follows the state of mind of a sailor called Christopher "Pincher" Martin, a temporary naval lieutenant who is apparently desperately fighting for his life in the Atlantic after the military ship has sunk. Here, he has arrived at an island in the sea. He is now trying to sleep.
Here, by "that other girl," I assume he is thinking a particular woman, but I wonder why it has to be "that other girl" instead of just "that girl."
Also, I wonder whether, by "that crude and unsatisfactory experiment," the narrator thinks some experiment that he has done, such as some created work of his. (I remember that he was a writer before serving in the Navy.) But... this is just my guess.
I would very much appreciate your help.
He lay still and considered sleep. But it was a tantalizingly evasive subject.
Think about women then or eating. Think about eating women, eating men, crunching up Alfred, that other girl, that boy, that crude and unsatisfactory experiment, lie restful as a log and consider the gnawed tunnel of life right up to this uneasy intermission.
- William Golding, Pincher Martin, Chapter 6
This is a novel published in the United Kingdom in 1956. The novel mainly follows the state of mind of a sailor called Christopher "Pincher" Martin, a temporary naval lieutenant who is apparently desperately fighting for his life in the Atlantic after the military ship has sunk. Here, he has arrived at an island in the sea. He is now trying to sleep.
Here, by "that other girl," I assume he is thinking a particular woman, but I wonder why it has to be "that other girl" instead of just "that girl."
Also, I wonder whether, by "that crude and unsatisfactory experiment," the narrator thinks some experiment that he has done, such as some created work of his. (I remember that he was a writer before serving in the Navy.) But... this is just my guess.
I would very much appreciate your help.