How would you interpret this phrase? How would you interpret this phrase ‘all that was happening was without interest or relation’ in the last sentence? I think it means the pain was so severe that he

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How would you interpret this phrase? How would you interpret this phrase ‘all that was happening was without interest or relation’ in the last sentence? I think it means the pain was so severe that he had no interest in everything, right? Thanks. It’s from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Chapter 9). The captain waved to me. They lifted me and the blanket-flap went across my face as we went out. Outside the sergeant-adjutant knelt down beside me where I lay, "Name?" he asked softly. "Middle name? First name? Rank? Where born? What class? What corps?" and so on. "I'm sorry for your head, Tenente. I hope you feel better. I'm sending you now with the English ambulance." "I'm all right," I said. "Thank you very much." The pain that the major had spoken about had started and all that was happening was without interest or relation.

25 апр. 2016 г., 3:51

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Right - pain or shock was the cause. He failed to say "to me" at the end of "all that was happening was without interest or relation." I think Hemingway wrote this to reflect/emphasize the vague, foggy, rather blended or unfocused state of a patient in shock. A patient's English is rather blurred when experiencing pain (as said above by Joey) and shock, too. And Hemingway expected the reader to know this. As such, I think stylistic factors were the basis of writing this particularly detached or oblique statement.

25 апреля 2016 г.

That sounds about right-- he means that the pain is so severe that it's hard to focus on anything else, so the conversation seems uninteresting and distant.

25 апреля 2016 г.

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