[It is difficult, they’re discovering, to describe in exact terms what they mean. They had looked at her, and they had seen. They had looked at her, and she was the diametric opposition to the jackal, slender and coal-black and heralding death. She was life, absolute, as far as they were concerned.]
[It leaves them uncertain how best to translate this, when their descriptors are all abstract.]
no subject
full of life
[It is difficult, they’re discovering, to describe in exact terms what they mean. They had looked at her, and they had seen. They had looked at her, and she was the diametric opposition to the jackal, slender and coal-black and heralding death. She was life, absolute, as far as they were concerned.]
[It leaves them uncertain how best to translate this, when their descriptors are all abstract.]