[Oblivious to Don's internal feelings, Robert continues the problem - he labels the calendar quickly and efficiently, numbering off the days after writing the names of the days themselves above.
Then his gaze ticks up and over to Don again.
"How many was I there?" The sentence seems like it should make sense. On the surface - grammatically - it is meaningless. But, Robert gets the impression that there is a meaning in it, struggling under the surface.
Come to think of it, didn't "tomato" seem to have a meaning too? Don kept using it. If he's speaking in cipher - like a word-substitution program - then maybe there's something else that should go where "tomato" did.
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Then his gaze ticks up and over to Don again.
"How many was I there?" The sentence seems like it should make sense. On the surface - grammatically - it is meaningless. But, Robert gets the impression that there is a meaning in it, struggling under the surface.
Come to think of it, didn't "tomato" seem to have a meaning too? Don kept using it. If he's speaking in cipher - like a word-substitution program - then maybe there's something else that should go where "tomato" did.
Is that true for this sentence as well?]