Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
absently graced
English answer:
rerun playing silently on screen (no one watching)
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Yvonne Gallagher
Apr 20, 2015 07:42
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English term
absently graced
English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Very much alone in the room, he drops his towel in preparation for a shower. In the corner of the room the bolted-down television plays silently, its screen absently graced by an oft rerun episode of Happy Days,but this is not the object of his attention.
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Yvonne Gallagher
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rerun palying silently on screen
rerun rather than something more up-to-date
"absently" not being watched, and no volume on sound (silently) so might as well not be there or TV could be swiched off as it would make no difference
"graced" =showing on screen/playing
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Note added at 39 mins (2015-04-20 08:22:39 GMT)
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typo: (rerun) playing (silently on screen)
"absently" not being watched, and no volume on sound (silently) so might as well not be there or TV could be swiched off as it would make no difference
"graced" =showing on screen/playing
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Note added at 39 mins (2015-04-20 08:22:39 GMT)
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typo: (rerun) playing (silently on screen)
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displaying though unwatched
The programme was being displayed on the screen, but with no sound and nobody was watching it. This is a slightly poetic way of putting it.
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Note added at 1 hr (2015-04-20 09:14:33 GMT)
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While the subject of "absently graced" is the episode of "Happy Days", the adverb "absently" also invokes the absent audience as well as meaning that the programme was playing without purpose or engagement. So, nobody had deliberately chosen to play that particular programme at that particular time and in that particular place.
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Note added at 1 hr (2015-04-20 09:14:33 GMT)
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While the subject of "absently graced" is the episode of "Happy Days", the adverb "absently" also invokes the absent audience as well as meaning that the programme was playing without purpose or engagement. So, nobody had deliberately chosen to play that particular programme at that particular time and in that particular place.
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