Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :
My grandfather-so clumsy, normally, that my grandmother buttoned his gloves for him,
handled these cultural objects with the dexterity of an officiating priest. Hundreds of times I saw
him get up absent-mindedly walk round the table, cross the room in two strides, unhesitatingly
pick out a volume without allowing himself time for choice, run through it as he went back to his
armchair, with a combined movement of his thumb and right forefinger, and, almost before he sat
down, open it with a flik 'at the right page', making it creak like a shoe. I sometimes got close
enough to observe these boxes which opened like oysters and I discovered the nakedness of their
internal organs, pale, dank, slightly blistered page covered with small black viens, which drank ink and smelt of mildew.

QUESTION:-1) why did he call his grandfather clumsy?
2) What do dark, blistered, Mildewed suggest about the gae of the books? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) bcoz his grandfather buttoned his gloves for him handle his cultural object with the dexterity of an officiating priest.

b) at the right page