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What do 'which' and ‘its' in this sentence refer to ? This is what Sontag calls "the heroism of vision" – the camera's ability to transform reality into something beautiful which is the result of its weakness in telling the truth. What do 'which' and 'its' in the sentence refer to?

2015年5月30日 02:29

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I believe "its" refers back to the camera, and "which" refers to the "ability" described in the phrase the camera's ability to transform reality into something beautiful." It would be clearer with a comma after "beautiful." In other words (assuming I've understood the original sentence), the camera's weakness in telling the truth gives it the ability to transform reality into something beautiful, and this is called "heroism of vision."

2015年5月30日

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