02-12-2018, 11:28 PM
I'm getting the picture here, and the sentiment.
Not a critique thread, but a few thoughts:
When I read "pipes" and marching with drums, I think of bagpipes. On the other hand, when I read drums, marching, and flags I think of fife and drum (18th-century military music, sometimes with slack un-snared drums for "original instruments" historicism). On the third hand, there's the Pied Piper to be considered...
"[S]urplanting" is a nice word, suggests replacement specifically from above rather than from the side or below like "supplanting."
The last line is an interesting turn, suddenly going first-person-plural from implied third-person observation. Trying to decide if this implies lack of involvement other than vicarious by the first-person "we."
An engaging read - thanks for posting!
Not a critique thread, but a few thoughts:
When I read "pipes" and marching with drums, I think of bagpipes. On the other hand, when I read drums, marching, and flags I think of fife and drum (18th-century military music, sometimes with slack un-snared drums for "original instruments" historicism). On the third hand, there's the Pied Piper to be considered...
"[S]urplanting" is a nice word, suggests replacement specifically from above rather than from the side or below like "supplanting."
The last line is an interesting turn, suddenly going first-person-plural from implied third-person observation. Trying to decide if this implies lack of involvement other than vicarious by the first-person "we."
An engaging read - thanks for posting!
Non-practicing atheist