Give the fat tools, please. Give me your big, your bulky, your heavy masses yearning to generate lots of lap heat! — here (I don’t know… I like thin lightweight gadgets but I am quite fond of my old-fashioned, bulky PC with its good old-fashioned keyboard and mouse.)
…I don’t really like that word “mastery”, in the same way that I don’t like the word “conquered” applied to mountains. Conquering implies that the climber has somehow subjugated the mountain, beating it into submission. Mastery implies a relationship of overlord to servant, one imposing their will on the other against an intransigent resistance. — there
November 12th, 2010 - 11:48 am
That’s a very limited definition of “mastery.” I blame our depraved age, where too many words are known only for their sexual connotation. (See “gay,” rinse, repeat.)
November 25th, 2010 - 3:15 am
I saw the film “Wildest Dream” ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509276/ ), about a climb to find out what happened to George Mallory, one of the first to make the attempt. At one point, they mentioned that the Sherpas don’t call it “conquest”, but something else entirely. I wish I could remember what it was – something a lot less “subjugating”.