What does “even so” mean in the following passage?
I found it in the Preface of Kipling’s Life’s Handicap, and it appears not to have the standard meaning of nevertheless as discussed in How to use ‘even so’? Excerpted quote. Kipling is talking with Gobind. What is even as it occurs five paraphernalia down?
What,’ said Gobind one Sunday afternoon, ‘is your honoured craft, and by what manner of means earn you your daily bread? ‘I
am,” said I, ‘a kerani, one who writes with pen upon paper, not being in the service of the Government. What
should I write? I cannot see your countenance, and the light fails. “Come nearer, for I cannot see your countenance.” ‘I
write about all matters that lie within my understanding, and of many that are not. That was on a serious note a novel of mine, about life and death and of men and women, and about love and death, written according to the measure of my strength, telling the tale through the mouths of one, two or more people. I am not to write to write the novel, but I am to write as a novel. According to the fortune of God, and the love of God, money becomes to us so that we may keep alive. ‘
Even so’says Gobind. “That is the work of the bazar storyteller; but he speaks to men and women and does nothing at all. A different ostensible sense of being there is in this tale. Only when the tale has aroused expectation, and calamities are about to befall the virtuous, he stops suddenly and demands payment ere he continues the narration. Is it so in your craft son? ‘Yes,
it is a full stop after ” ‘Even so,’ said Gobind. So it looks a thought that it means something other than “nevertheless” or “that being the case.” How do I know why nobody is helping me please.?
What other uses did you see in the same verse, by “Little Tobrah”? Little Tobrah has just mentioned a little sister. Then it goes:’she
died in the well?’ said one who had heard about it. Yes, even so, said Little Tobrah. She who was found dead in the well, the Bible says. ”
” In this case, I think it clearly means “yes” or “exactly.” What is the first quote of the quote series? Kipling puts unusual things in the mouth of Indians, I think. How does it work?
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
What does “Even so” mean?
What is it like in Kipling’s time?
In the second, the meaning makes complete sense. Who was found dead in the well? She died at the well. “Yes! She was found dead in the well.
In your first example it may well mean that, but we’d need more of a quote to be sure.
