Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
make solid
1. Does "to make solid" mean "to realize"?
2. what does the highlighted sentence mean?
Context:
The work may offer satiric comment on science’s Oncomouse, into which has been inserted a human gene sequence that confers susceptibility to cancer – the first genetically engineered mammal to be patented. But there is ambivalence here too. It is Good and Evil. If the process and the commercial investment in it leads to a cure for breast cancer (the Oncomouse’s function) the experiment is probably justifiable. Such interventions may have as much to do with a fearful fascination with the mutant and monstrous as with parodying new scientific practice, making solid the nightmares of distortion and uncontrolled mutation, the half-man/half-beast chimera common to all world mythologies, ghost stories and science fiction, to say nothing of the vast lived mythology of terror surrounding cancer.
2. what does the highlighted sentence mean?
Context:
The work may offer satiric comment on science’s Oncomouse, into which has been inserted a human gene sequence that confers susceptibility to cancer – the first genetically engineered mammal to be patented. But there is ambivalence here too. It is Good and Evil. If the process and the commercial investment in it leads to a cure for breast cancer (the Oncomouse’s function) the experiment is probably justifiable. Such interventions may have as much to do with a fearful fascination with the mutant and monstrous as with parodying new scientific practice, making solid the nightmares of distortion and uncontrolled mutation, the half-man/half-beast chimera common to all world mythologies, ghost stories and science fiction, to say nothing of the vast lived mythology of terror surrounding cancer.
Top answer
making solid making seem real and possible t o say nothing of the vast lived mythology of terror surrounding cancer . I don't know why the author has used the word 'lived' here.
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making solid making seem real and possible
to say nothing of the vast lived mythology of terror surrounding cancer.
I don't know why the author has used the word 'lived' here.
to say nothing of the vast lived mythology of terror surrounding cancer.
I don't know why the author has used the word 'lived' here.
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Do not you have any idea about the relationship between "mythology" and "cancer"? The harm of cancer is a fact and not a mythology. Maybe it is referring to what it was thought about in the past.
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