As Morgan Daimler had already discovered, there’s no record of the phrase “oak, ash, and thorn” before Rudyard Kipling. Specifically, they show up in his books Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies, wielded by the clever hands of one Mr. Robin Goodfellow. “Oh,” I muttered, learning this. “Oh, you clever sneak.”
“There comes a point,” Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote in 1949, “where this court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”
The #SupremeCourt’s decision on Wed to schedule arguments in April to consider #Trump’s argument that he is #immune from prosecution seemed colored by the lack of that #perspective.
Heh, if I filled up 10 liters fuel every week in my motorcycle for 10 years (and rode the ~350-400km every week to use it up) it barely comes close to what this private jet consumed in one flight:
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Sometimes you need to really give things a chance.
I wrote about a really incredible use of a child's perspective (in Verushka, by Jan Stinchcomb).
Some writers--& some readers--prefer to mimic a child's language when they write from their perspective, but I don't want to be limited by that & now I'm thinking of other perspectives that jump words to make something stranger.
How do you approach perspectives when you can't--for any reason--use the character's words?
From The Economist (source article currently de-paywalling):
"Buckingham Palace, valued at ~£1 billion, sits in band H and is charged £1,828 by Westminster City Council, less than an average three-bedroom property in Blackpool. In 2024, 46 per cent of households in England will pay more in council tax than the Palace."
2024-01-14
An artistic protest action in Jerusalem marking 100 days since the hostages were taken captive. The message was “Stop everything. Bring them all back”.
We walked down the street with “100 days” signs taped to our clothes and at a given moment everyone froze in place. After 15 minutes we started chanting “Now. Now. Now…” (meaning “bring them home now” or “deal now”) for several minutes. We repeated these steps twice.
Up at the Lookout - captured as the sun was setting in Cragsmoor, New York. A favorite spot that my husband and I went to frequently on Route 52 leading into Ellenville. Me playing with perspective.
@RonaldTooTall Very exciting #space news about that massive 'ring'! But one thing puzzles me: a ring only looks like a ring from our unique #perspective on earth in the 3D vastness of space. From most other points in space the structure would look like a disc - or nothing distinguishable at all. Or is my brain simply too small to get this? :-/