Johnyxxx
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Hello,
Does the bold text mean when he found he was talking over the other guy´s head, he began to talk in a more simple way so that his friend could understand him?
He talked a lot about "hyper-space," whatever that is; and at first I nodded, as if I knew all about it. But he very soon saw that I didn't, and he came down to my level again. What he'd come to ask me was this: Did I know anything, of my own experience, about things "photographing through"? (You know the kind of thing: a name that's been painted out on a board, say, comes up in the plate.)
Benlian, Oliver Onions, 1911.
Thanks a lot.
Does the bold text mean when he found he was talking over the other guy´s head, he began to talk in a more simple way so that his friend could understand him?
He talked a lot about "hyper-space," whatever that is; and at first I nodded, as if I knew all about it. But he very soon saw that I didn't, and he came down to my level again. What he'd come to ask me was this: Did I know anything, of my own experience, about things "photographing through"? (You know the kind of thing: a name that's been painted out on a board, say, comes up in the plate.)
Benlian, Oliver Onions, 1911.
Thanks a lot.
