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Sun 25 Aug, 2013 09:33 am
He told her of those things that slept and those that prowled when the dusk fell, of strange hunting cats, of the yard swine and the stalled cattle, of the farm folk themselves, as curious and remote in their way, in their ideas and fears and wants and tragedies, as the brutes and feathered stock that they tended. It seemed to Elaine as if a musty store of old-world children’s books had been fetched down from some cobwebbed lumber-room and brought to life.
Can anyone explain the bold part?
@Stacy2013,
The suggestion was that people who worked on farms were as different from other people as the animals and poultry they took care of. They were different because of the ways they thought as well as the ways they lived their lives.
He told her about the farm folk who were just as curious and remote as the brutes and feathered stock that they tended.
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