Perhaps nowadays it is our demure contemplation of the Imperfect that the West and the East can meet in mutual consolation.
It doesn't make any sense.
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4This question appears to be off-topic because as the OP himself notes, "It doesn't make sense". There is no point in asking us to "analyse" such an invalid sentence.– FumbleFingersApr 11, 2014 at 19:29
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As Cees Timmerman suggests below, this is certainly an error, but it is present in the original. You may prefer to read the work in that form, which is much handsomer.– StoneyB on hiatusApr 12, 2014 at 0:04
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Yes, it should be "through our demure..."
Because "our demure contemplation of the Imperfect" isn't something that's meetable.
answered Apr 11, 2014 at 13:18
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At first, I thought this sentence was an example of it-cleft, but the resulting sentence after removing the clefting makes no sense:
That the West and the East can meet in mutual consolation is our demure contemplation of the Imperfect
I cannot imagine how a meeting of the East and the West can be a contemplation.
This makes me think that a portion of the sentence has been omitted, for example:
Perhaps nowadays it is our demure contemplation of the Imperfect [that explains] that the West and the East can meet in mutual consolation.
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2I don't think you are right on the reasoning. It's simply ungrammatical as the OP said there. For an ellipsis, it's gone a bit too far.– user2492Apr 11, 2014 at 14:25