What does "hairy with spraypaint"? Hi, Is this sentence read as this way? Day says, falling in behind a city bus hairy with spraypaint. => Day says, following a bus holding spraypaint. ""Do the phone bill," Day says, falling in behind a city bus hairy with spraypaint. The bus's fumes are sweet. "

What does "Habla, Hablo" mean?(Spanish-English) Hi, What does "Habla, Hablo" mean in English in this context? "Habla Espanol?" Eric Yang asks from the passenger's side. Smoke from a smokestack hangs jagged as Day nods his head. "You wanted to be shown ropes," Yang says. His eyes are closed as he rotates. "I'll show you a rope. Habla?" "Yes," Day says. "Hablo." They drive past homes. Eric Yang's special talent is the mental rotation of three-dimensional objects.

And what is a county car? Hi, What does the second sentence mean in the following paragraph? Is 'HEALTH' printed in the sticker? And what is a county car? "That day he is back at work's first week. Sunlight reverses HEALTH pink through the windshield's sticker. Day drives the county car past a factory."

What does "Nothing stretches tight across everything else." mean? Hi, 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."

What does "hammer home fiduciary pun" in the following sentence? Hi, What does "hammer home fiduciary pun" in the following sentence? I don't get any clue. "Marriage now enters new, more adult phase ['honeymoon over' an easy gag?]. Never once in sbsqnt yrs of marriage do J.O.R. & hsbnd discuss his S.C.M. or interior pain/loneliness/'deficits' [N.B.: hammer home fiduciary pun]."

What does "all deployed dollars of fluctuant value" mean? Hi, This is about currency. What does "all deployed dollars of fluctuant value" mean? "Taiwan, Singapore, Zimbabwe, Liberia, New Zealand: all deployed dollars of fluctuant value."

What does "penance and gift" mean in this context? Hi, What does "penance and gift" mean in this context? Is it related to religion? Especially, what does 'gift' mean? "In other words, Y says, to make it his secret penance and gift to the old man to just hang in there and silently to suffer the feelings of loathing and hypocrisy and selfishness and discountenance, but not to stop accompanying his wife or going to visit the old man or lurking tangentially at the family councils, in other words for X simply to reduce himself to bare physical actions and processes, to get off his heart's back and stop worrying about his makeup and simply Show Up4 . . . which, when X rejoins that for Christ's sweet sake this is what he's already been doing all along, Y tentatively pats his (i.e., X's) shoulder and ventures to say that X has always struck him (=Y) as a good deal stronger and wiser and more compassionate than he, X, is willing to give himself credit for."

What does "to be more" mean in this sentence? Hi, What does "to be more" mean in this sentence? There is no adjective after "more". "What if I told you she could because she's had this happen and she totally knows it's possible to be just a thing but just like Victor Frankl that every minute from then on minute by minute if you want you can choose to be more if you want, you can choose to be a human being and have it mean something? Then what would you say?'"

What does "Nor do" mean in this context? Hi, What does "Nor do" mean in this context? "`Alive and kicking. She lives with my sister and her husband and their two small children. Very much alive. Nor do - rest assured that I do not delude myself that the low percentage of rebuffs is due to any overwhelming allure on my part. This is not how an activity like this works."