Can anyone paraphrase this sentence please ?

[cedarbreed]

The scene takes place in a garage, I don't get the meaning of this fucking sentence !

"[...]two shapeless men in goggles caressed a great downward-drooping fan of flame broken into dry drops.[...]"

 

[Bambi]

hahah thats supposed to be english?? go tell whoever wrote that to surrender immediately.

 

[cedarbreed]

John UPDIKE "The Centaur"

It's supposed to be English and I'm supposed to translate that for my exams !!!

 

[cedarbreed]

Help Ffs !!!

 

[Maqus]

It's perfectly okay industrially until "fan", like two ordinary (i.e. shapeless) workers want to do some welding on the fan.

erm... maybe they are really doing some welding, hehe, I mean isn't it like a metaphor for welding? fan of flame broken into dry drops

 

[Maqus]

lovely hermeneutics

 

[cedarbreed]

I bet the author himself doesn't know what it means.

 

[cedarbreed]

- Why 'downward-drooping' ? It's a bit heavy isn't it ? Both words mean almost the same, don't they ?
- What's a 'fan of flame' ? And how can it be 'broken into dry drops' ? What are 'dry drops' anyway ? Drops are liquid. And flames are fire which is far from being a liquid.

I don't get it at all. I think this test is a joke.

 

[cedarbreed]

And why the hell are they caressing it ??? Do they shag industrial tools ?

 

[pistol_pete]

Do they shag industrial tools ?

it does happen

 

[bondcfh007]

john updike is a douchebag

 

[Lord_Of_This_World]

That's all bollocks.Teachers actually only know about 5% of what they're supposed to know.Ignore them.They could'nt educate a turd.

 

[Maqus]

Erm, and what are they supposed to know?

 

[my dying groom]

The scene takes place in a garage, I don't get the meaning of this fucking sentence !

"[...]two shapeless men in goggles caressed a great downward-drooping fan of flame broken into dry drops.[...]"

two guys take a golden shower in a garage.

 

[Lord_Of_This_World]

Erm, and what are they supposed to know?

The subject they're meant to be teaching perhaps?

 

[Maqus]

I do know the subject I'm teaching, everything's the teachers' fault, of course.

 

[my dying groom]

One of the first games I played on my Commodore was called Teacherbuster. Chasing teachers with a tank is fun.

 

[Maqus]

This is sick.

 

[my dying groom]

Thank you.

 

[Lord_Of_This_World]

My wifes a teacher and university lecturer.I know how they blag there way along.