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Unread 05-14-2024, 09:01 AM
Carl Copeland Carl Copeland is offline
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Originally Posted by Rick Mullin View Post
But doesn't the grammatical logic of "hide the ball and find it" serve as an example of how "it" refers to the sky?
You’re right that both the grammar and the parallelism of the phrases point to “sky” as the antecedent of “it,” but logically it’s so improbable that readers will bend over backwards to find something else. I wavered between “grass” and “stalk,” and Glenn also considered the linden row, but the sky never occurred to either of us. How would you understand “I’ll put on my pajamas to wash the dishes and wear them to bed”? “Bury” would help, I think, simply because “bury” and “dig up” are a more natural pair, like “hide” and “find,” but you’d have to stomach the trochaic inversion.

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