Both Uses of
monotonous
in
As I Lay Dying
- It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived,
Chpt 32 *monotonous = dull (lacking variety)
- The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight not of that single monotony of desolation leaning with, that terrific quality a little from right to left, as though we had reached the place where the motion of the wasted world accelerates just before the final precipice.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring