I... can't even understand what it is trying to say...
With the excerpt:
"The unleashed metals bayed like hounds. The workmen shrunk. Through
their fright, fatal harm to the bell was dreaded. Fearless as Shadrach,
Bannadonna, rushing through the glow, smote the chief culprit with his
ponderous ladle. From the smitten part, a splinter was dashed into the
seething mass, and at once was melted in.
Next day a portion of the work was heedfully uncovered. All seemed
right. Upon the third morning, with equal satisfaction, it was bared
still lower. At length, like some old Theban king, the whole cooled
casting was disinterred. All was fair except in one strange spot. But as
he suffered no one to attend him in these inspections, he concealed the
blemish by some preparation which none knew better to devise.
The casting of such a mass was deemed no small triumph for the caster;
one, too, in which the state might not scorn to share. The homicide was
overlooked. By the charitable that deed was but imputed to sudden
transports of esthetic passion, not to any flagitious quality. A kick
from an Arabian charger; not sign of vice, but blood."
I have NO idea...what it is saying... Here's my interpretation...:
"The bells were unleashed, and something happen,...they probably fell or did not work. While others shrunk, Bannadonna smithed something that made it work the next time. THEN...the next day everything seemed okay.. though there was one strange spot was not fair. But he made no one inspect them, he just concealed the error... but WHAT? homicide? where did THAT come in?...
thanks. =)
With the excerpt:
"The unleashed metals bayed like hounds. The workmen shrunk. Through
their fright, fatal harm to the bell was dreaded. Fearless as Shadrach,
Bannadonna, rushing through the glow, smote the chief culprit with his
ponderous ladle. From the smitten part, a splinter was dashed into the
seething mass, and at once was melted in.
Next day a portion of the work was heedfully uncovered. All seemed
right. Upon the third morning, with equal satisfaction, it was bared
still lower. At length, like some old Theban king, the whole cooled
casting was disinterred. All was fair except in one strange spot. But as
he suffered no one to attend him in these inspections, he concealed the
blemish by some preparation which none knew better to devise.
The casting of such a mass was deemed no small triumph for the caster;
one, too, in which the state might not scorn to share. The homicide was
overlooked. By the charitable that deed was but imputed to sudden
transports of esthetic passion, not to any flagitious quality. A kick
from an Arabian charger; not sign of vice, but blood."
I have NO idea...what it is saying... Here's my interpretation...:
"The bells were unleashed, and something happen,...they probably fell or did not work. While others shrunk, Bannadonna smithed something that made it work the next time. THEN...the next day everything seemed okay.. though there was one strange spot was not fair. But he made no one inspect them, he just concealed the error... but WHAT? homicide? where did THAT come in?...
thanks. =)