I have at least one old man’s ill: I suffer from insomnia. Late at night I lie in my bed, listening to the dank and hopeless sound of infirm men and women coughing their courses deeper into old age. Sometimes I hear a call-bell, or the squeak of a shoe in the corridor, or Mrs Javits’s little TV tuned to the late news. I lie here, and if the moon is in my window, I watch it.
Source: The Green Mile
Context: The narrator is in a nursing home.
Would you say dank is a noun in this sentence? Or is the sound dank? What would it mean? Is the meaning of dank shifting?
Thank you.
Source: The Green Mile
Context: The narrator is in a nursing home.
Would you say dank is a noun in this sentence? Or is the sound dank? What would it mean? Is the meaning of dank shifting?
Thank you.