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What does I tracked their quotidian lives as they played out against a shimmering scrim of cultural and political context. mean?
What does I tracked their quotidian lives as they played out against a shimmering scrim of cultural and political context. mean?
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@H-oon Played out means as their lives happened, or as their days passed, or as they lived their lives.
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That quote is from a cartoonist who wrote a lot about culture and politics using characters just living their normal lives.
Political and cultural controversies would be in the background, but the characters themelves were just regular people living through those times.
It's like writing a story about a young boy in Iraq who raised goats during the American invasion of Iraq. The story seems to be just about a little boy feeding his goats, but maybe he has to walk through a US military checkpoint on his way to the pasture, so that the REAL story is about how the invasion impacted people's daily lives in both dramatic and subtle ways.
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Quotidian just means daily life.
A scrim is a see-through curtain often used in theaters do create different lighting effects.
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@emiliotorres Thank you for your answer. Could you let me know what's the meaning of played out in the sentence?
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@H-oon Played out means as their lives happened, or as their days passed, or as they lived their lives.
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