Sunday, March 21, 2010

oblique

"He saw a cow swimming slowly towards the fill in an oblique line."
p. 165 Their Eyes Were Watching God
Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Oblique means not straight or direct, as a course (or mathematically neither parallel nor perpendicular) .

hint: cows swimming would be in a zig-zagged way.

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