Question

"the shadow of the bridge, the tiers of railing, my shadow leaning flat upon the water, so easily had i tracked it that it would not quite me. At least fifty it was and if i only had something to blot it into the water, holding it until it was drowned, the shadow of the package like two shoes wrapped up lying on the water" meaning

Answer 1

A gas is one of the three classical states of matter (the others being liquid and solid). ... A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas or atomic gas like neon), elemental molecules made from one type of atom (e.g. oxygen), or compound molecules made from a variety of atoms (e.g. carbon dioxide).