He required a beautiful landscape outside his windows, but when he wrote music, the silence had to be absolute and all outside sound, and sunlight, had to be excluded by heavy curtains of the finest and costliest materials. They had to draw with "a satisfying swish."
I tried to rewirte the last sentence as follows;
The curtains had to flutter in the wind so that they could draw attention/look nicely.
Do I understand the last sentence correctly?
I tried to rewirte the last sentence as follows;
The curtains had to flutter in the wind so that they could draw attention/look nicely.
Do I understand the last sentence correctly?