examples of worlding (3)

Bookending worlds - Solzhenitsyn

D.M. Thomas’ Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life. (1998, New York: St. Martin's Press.) When I was cataloguing this biography I was reminded of the copy of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago my mother had on the family bookcase at home. I eventually read it and went on to borrow from the state library in Launceston a hardcover of One Day in the Life…

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Tomorrow - example of worlding

From the missoulacurrent.com by Laura Lundquist “This is such a special day, a day we envisioned many years ago. But it really wasn’t ready to happen until today,” Thompson said. “It happened because of hard work. Hours upon hours, days upon days, of trying to figure out not only how to do it, and where to do it and how…

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Examples of people worlding in words

Examples of people worlding in their words I’ll list under here examples of people drawing on the worlding urge more directly than usual. By more directly I mean that they are not using more derived frameworks to structure or form. They still use metaphor and simile, we are wordy worlders afterall, and it may be that they appear sacharin or…

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