AtDtDA(28): The Unthinkable Possibility

[Mark Kohut]

  Dave Monroe writes:
  "Struggle with the day, struggle against the day ..."
  Yes, and I recently saw the full OED definition--page or two--of "against", which
  way back, and in many uses--Shakespeare---can mean 'for"!
   
  Talk about finding the word to capture the greatest richness, the full "range" of meanings....a word that excludes any
  simplistic attempt at "an excluded middle".......
   
  \MK
   
  
 
  

Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
  On 3/8/08, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Dave Monroe writes:
> "... the unthinkable possibility had been dawning that God had
> abandoned Russia. What had been certain and mandated by Heaven was
> now as loaded with uncertainty as any peasant's struggle with the day,
> and all, regardless of wealth or position, must stumble blindly."
> (pp. 779-80)
>
> In the 10th century Prince Vladimir I, who was converted by missionaries
> from Byzantium, adopted Christianity as the official religion for Russia,
> and for nearly 1,000 years thereafter the Russian Orthodox church was the
> country's dominant religious institution. Ency Brittanica...
>
> Love that long old various defintion of WITH....

Struggle with the day, struggle against the day ...


       
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