gary17
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So here's an excerpt from The Thirteenth Tale written by Dianne Setterfield:
"Father had finished for the day, switched off the shop lights and closed the shutters; but so I would not come home to darkness he had left on the light over the stairs to the flat. Through the glass in the door it cast a foolscap rectangle of paleness onto the wet pavement,...."
I don't quite understand where the light is located. It seems to me that the "flat/pavement" means a "porch". Since the light casts paleness onto the outside porch, the light must be inside the shop. But what does over the stairs mean? Does it mean there are lightbulbs above the staircases in the shop which extend to the door/porch/flat/pavement?
I'm really confused... :-?
"Father had finished for the day, switched off the shop lights and closed the shutters; but so I would not come home to darkness he had left on the light over the stairs to the flat. Through the glass in the door it cast a foolscap rectangle of paleness onto the wet pavement,...."
I don't quite understand where the light is located. It seems to me that the "flat/pavement" means a "porch". Since the light casts paleness onto the outside porch, the light must be inside the shop. But what does over the stairs mean? Does it mean there are lightbulbs above the staircases in the shop which extend to the door/porch/flat/pavement?
I'm really confused... :-?
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