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Hello everyone. I encountered this expression, "Stone mason as well", and I am wondering how it is connected to the previous sentence:
“I must get a sphere. Perhaps I could beat the nearest to it with another stone until it rounds. Stone mason as well. Who was it cut stone cannon-balls? Michael Angelo? But I must look for a very round stone. Never a dull moment. Just like Itma.”
- William Golding, Pincher Martin, Chapter 7
This is a novel published in the United Kingdom in 1956. The novel mainly follows the state of mind of a sailor called Christopher "Pincher" Martin, a temporary naval lieutenant. He was in the Atlantic Ocean when his ship sank. He swam until he found an island. He is now thinking a way to get a spherical rock in order to allow his silver chocolate packaging paper (now attached to a non-spherical rock) to be seen from all directions for his rescue.
Here, I wonder what the underlined part would mean.
Would that mean that a stone mason would do the same (beating the stone until it rounds)...? (But this is just my guess.)
I would very much appreciate your help.
“I must get a sphere. Perhaps I could beat the nearest to it with another stone until it rounds. Stone mason as well. Who was it cut stone cannon-balls? Michael Angelo? But I must look for a very round stone. Never a dull moment. Just like Itma.”
- William Golding, Pincher Martin, Chapter 7
This is a novel published in the United Kingdom in 1956. The novel mainly follows the state of mind of a sailor called Christopher "Pincher" Martin, a temporary naval lieutenant. He was in the Atlantic Ocean when his ship sank. He swam until he found an island. He is now thinking a way to get a spherical rock in order to allow his silver chocolate packaging paper (now attached to a non-spherical rock) to be seen from all directions for his rescue.
Here, I wonder what the underlined part would mean.
Would that mean that a stone mason would do the same (beating the stone until it rounds)...? (But this is just my guess.)
I would very much appreciate your help.
