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Wed 5 Oct, 2011 05:12 am
Context:
'And beyond the Wild Wood again?' he asked: 'Where it's all blue and dim, and one sees what may be hills or perhaps they mayn't, and something like the smoke of towns, or is it only
cloud-drift?'
More:
http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/w/11159-the-wind-in-the-willows-by-kenneth-grahame?start=4
No, he's saying that one thing which can be seen would be either the smoke of towns or small shreds of cloud drifting through the sky. It is a statement of literal truth, but about the substance of which one might not be certain.
Ori - why would you think that "hallucinated" would apply here?
@PUNKEY,
I'm guessing in the same sense as mirage.
joe(mebbe)Nation
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:
I'm guessing in the same sense as mirage.
joe(mebbe)Nation
I'm with you. Both of us have been hallucinated.
I'm sure we haven't hallucinated you, you have seemed real enought for years now.
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