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What does "Nothing stretches tight across everything else." mean?
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This is a paragraph from a novel, but sounds like a poetry.
What does "Nothing stretches tight across everything else." mean in this context?
"Drawn lids one screen of skin, dreampaintings move across Day's colored dark. Tonight, in a lapse unfluttered by time, he travels what seems to be back. Shrinking, smoother, loses his belly and faint acne scars. Bird-boned gangle; bowl haircut and cup-handle ears; skin sucks hair, nose recedes into face; he swaddles in his pants and then curls, pink and mute and smaller until he feels himself split into something that wriggles and something that spins. Nothing stretches tight across everything else. A black point rotates. The point breaks open, jagged. His soul sails toward one color."
This is a paragraph from a novel, but sounds like a poetry.
What does "Nothing stretches tight across everything else." mean in this context?
"Drawn lids one screen of skin, dreampaintings move across Day's colored dark. Tonight, in a lapse unfluttered by time, he travels what seems to be back. Shrinking, smoother, loses his belly and faint acne scars. Bird-boned gangle; bowl haircut and cup-handle ears; skin sucks hair, nose recedes into face; he swaddles in his pants and then curls, pink and mute and smaller until he feels himself split into something that wriggles and something that spins. Nothing stretches tight across everything else. A black point rotates. The point breaks open, jagged. His soul sails toward one color."
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Wow! That's a tough question! I agree with you that it seems more like poetry. This author is speaking in a hodgepodge of twisted metaphors and improper grammar (which could be acceptable, considering the majority of the content in the novel). It is difficult to discern the exact meaning without knowing more of the context from which it came. However, the author seems to be describing the attitude and appearance of a character in the novel. I would guess that, "Nothing stretches tight across everything else." refers to a disheveled appearance of the character being described.
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