5 uses
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Definition
to come to understand
- And the more I try to fathom what makes me enjoy mechanical work and them hate it so, the more elusive it becomes.Part 1 (11% in)
- Fathomless!Part 3 (47% in)
- He tried to fathom more deeply what had happened.Part 3 (57% in)
- The effort of fathoming what is in another's mind creates a distortion of what is seen.Part 3 (80% in)
- Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people...what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.Part 4 (91% in)
There are no more uses of "fathom" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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