True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery— a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness.
A blank space can be white or black.
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It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery— a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness.
A blank space becomes "a white patch", which is an unknown place without a name (blank=white).
A blank space is "a place of darkness" when it becomes a known place (blank=black).
dependent elements, may differentiate between meanings or carry meaning themselves (e.g. phoneme, grapheme, morpheme)
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independent elements, may consist of subelements and carry meaning (e.g. word)
structure of two or more elements, expandable, may be composed ad hoc or be established components (e.g. phraseme, single phrase, figure).
one or more elements and/or complex elements, which may be structurally linked and form a self-contained unit of meaning (e.g. sentence; group of figures)
the part of a whole which carries a message, is thematically essentially self-contained, and which is structurally and/or thematically separated from the whole it belongs to (e.g. section of text/discourse/speech; picture (with cotext))
network of thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked sub-units, separated and independent from other complexes, and complete in itself (e.g. text; discourse; speech; poem; dramatic text; picture and circumstances of reception)
an in principle indefinite amount of thematically, structurally and/or functionally comparable complexes (e.g. thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked texts/discourses/speeches/pictures in comparison; political debate)
Both the known and the unknown are a blank. The metaphorical cliche of enlightenment is to shed light on the dark/unknown. In this example, this metaphor is reverted.
