Son rayas sin ningún sentido.

Question

El contexto. Estoy leyendo un libro el narrador esta conduciendo un coche y dice "hay un reloj en el salpicadero. Son rayas sin ningún sentido. El camino me aleja del tiempo. my impression of this is :- There is a clock on the dashboard ?the hands mean nothing(to me) the road separates me from the sensation of time or something like this. I would appreciate your help/opinion please.

Welcome to the forum. ¡Ya tienes tu primer voto! :) - Cordobesa, Mar 23, 2012

Interesting, rayas seem to have quite few meanings.. - annierats, Mar 23, 2012

Answer 1

There is a clock on the dashboard. Yes.

Son rayas sin ningún sentido: I think it's a digital watch, he is looking at the time in the digital display (las rayas), but he isn't seeing it. They don't mean anything to him.

The road separates me from the sensation of time or something like this. While he's driving, he's loosing his awareness of time.

Answer 2

Not necessarily a digital watch. As I understand it, he looks at the clock, an it means nothing to him.

It's just a bunch of lines (not only the hands, the whole clock), because the road has made him lose sense of time.

Puede ser, Guimmys, puede ser, aunque a mí me sigue sonando más a las líneas que forman los números en un reloj digital. Lo único que está claro, es que no sabe qué hora es :)))) - Cordobesa, Mar 23, 2012