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Have difficulty in catching the nuance

 
 
Reply Sat 10 May, 2014 08:30 pm


Does "her snide deconstrctive terminology" refer to her behavior in which she ignored the considerable content of my extensive resume and concluded that I was just a passenger; and what is worse is that she told me to try my hand at travel profession - darn it, it was exactly my profession before I asked her advice!

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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Sat 10 May, 2014 09:32 pm
@oristarA,
No. Nowhere in the text does it say that the narrator had asked Theresa's advice in regard to her traveling. "Her snide deconstructive terminology" refers to Theresa's contemptuous view of the narrator's travel expertise.
oristarA
 
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Reply Sun 11 May, 2014 05:07 am
@InfraBlue,
InfraBlue wrote:

No. Nowhere in the text does it say that the narrator had asked Theresa's advice in regard to her traveling. "Her snide deconstructive terminology" refers to Theresa's contemptuous view of the narrator's travel expertise.


Well thanks.
There are a lot questions there unclear to me.
(1) my calling = my profession?
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Sun 11 May, 2014 08:16 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:

There are a lot questions there unclear to me.
(1) my calling = my profession?

In this context, yes, or "vocation."
oristarA
 
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Reply Sun 11 May, 2014 10:00 pm
@InfraBlue,
InfraBlue wrote:

oristarA wrote:

There are a lot questions there unclear to me.
(1) my calling = my profession?

In this context, yes, or "vocation."


Thank you.

Second queation:
Does "citing my extensive resume as a 'passenger'" mean " she ignored the considerable content of my extensive resume and concluded that I was just a passenger"?
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 03:14 am
@oristarA,

It was "I" who cited my own resume.
So the question makes no sense at the moment.
oristarA
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 05:55 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:


It was "I" who cited my own resume.
So the question makes no sense at the moment.


More confusing to me:
Why would "I" sarcastically said "it turns out was just my calling" if it is "I' "myself" citing my extensive resume as a "passenger" (not a passenger at all, "I" am a damned travel professional)?
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 12:31 pm
@oristarA,
Sorry, on reading this (OP) again, I realise I was wrong.

It was Theresa who cited the resume. She was being partly sarcastic, but the writer found the suggestion suited his experience very well.
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