Natsume Soseki's Ten Nights of Dreams I can't understand what it wants to say. Her eyes were large and moist and beneath their long shading lashes were twin expanses of the jettest black. My clearly

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Natsume Soseki's Ten Nights of Dreams I can't understand what it wants to say. Her eyes were large and moist and beneath their long shading lashes were twin expanses of the jettest black. My clearly-mirrored image was floating in the depths of those jet black eyes. the jettest black - what do you mean? jet black eyes - ?

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"the jettest black" would not normally be a correct way of speaking, but because the writer is playing with words poetically, it is acceptable

I see why this is confusing. It's written in a poetic manner, which sounds a bit less natural and uses words in strange ways. Jet black describes something as being purely and deeply black, as black as possible. Jet is something like coal, that is where the expression comes from. Hope this is helpful! Good luck :)

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