Saturday, May 23, 2015

meaning in context - Distorted Cabin & Oily Sheen: What is going on in this paragraph?


I have been reading a book, and I have a question about the following excerpt:



"We're here," The Tortoise in the Lake said, cutting across Dong Huong's gloomy thoughts.


"I can see nothing."


There came a low rumble, which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls. "Watch."


Outside, everything was dark. There was only the shadow of The Two Sisters in Exile, the dead ship that they'd been pulling since Longevity Station.


The Two Sisters in Exile, a fantasy novel by Aliette de Bodard




Are these changes happening in the “real” life of the novel?, or are they an illusion that exists merely in the mind of the narrator? If they are only an illusion, why does the author not say so? Has the author omitted something, or are these changes are really happening as the author says?




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