Johnyxxx
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Hello.
I am not sure if I understand the bold text correctly. Does it mean that "Had his two lives been infinitely lenghtened like two parallel lines, they would have reached a heaven somwhere that can suitably contain such strangely opposite characteristics?"
Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew it were his assistant, Dr. Laidlaw, and his publishers. But a double life need not always be a bad one, and, as Dr. Laidlaw and the gratified publishers well knew, the parallel lives of this particular man were equally good, and indefinitely produced would certainly have ended in a heaven somewhere that can suitably contain such strangely opposite characteristics as his remarkable personality combined. For Mark Ebor, F.R.S., etc., etc., was that unique combination hardly ever met with in actual life, a man of science and a mystic.
The Man Who Found Out, Algenron Blackwood, 1921.
Thank you.
I am not sure if I understand the bold text correctly. Does it mean that "Had his two lives been infinitely lenghtened like two parallel lines, they would have reached a heaven somwhere that can suitably contain such strangely opposite characteristics?"
Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew it were his assistant, Dr. Laidlaw, and his publishers. But a double life need not always be a bad one, and, as Dr. Laidlaw and the gratified publishers well knew, the parallel lives of this particular man were equally good, and indefinitely produced would certainly have ended in a heaven somewhere that can suitably contain such strangely opposite characteristics as his remarkable personality combined. For Mark Ebor, F.R.S., etc., etc., was that unique combination hardly ever met with in actual life, a man of science and a mystic.
The Man Who Found Out, Algenron Blackwood, 1921.
Thank you.
