interstate 5

my glass ceiling was subject
to a wrist pull
we rougheyed it up
said “do what you’re told”

my moon crater was a lazy fuck
so we seeded it to its knees
foot shivered it sideways
said “you’ll believe in anything”

my skin chest tightened up
like salt
claimed it was rubbing two sticks
we scary toaded it down
said “my dear, what’s happened to us”

my missile silos lent distance
to the distance
picked ignition, built it ride-equipped
we palm tree stalkered, directionless
said “it’s what you do to me”

my tractor scrub fell over the lines,
done with school
we farewell songed it to a
median rhythm
said “this one here, that’s the color black”

my sons and daughters got lost
in an almond tree bloom
non-existed to the corner of stay and sea
we okay corralled the little bastards
said “sometimes you know what you want
if you know you can get it”

OED definitions

modernity, n.

1. a. The quality or condition of being modern; modernness of character or style.
1635 G. HAKEWILL Apol. V. 192 Yea but I vilifie the present times, you say, whiles I expect a more flourishing state to succeed; bee it so, yet this is not to vilifie modernitie, as you pretend. 1782 H. WALPOLE Let. to W. Cole 22 Feb. (1858) VIII. 161 Now that the poems [sc. Chatterton's] have been so much examined, nobody (that has an ear) can get over the modernity of the modulations. 1796 S. PEGGE Anonymiana (1809) 429 Macrobius is no good author to follow in point of Latinity, partly on account of his modernity, and partly of his foreign extraction. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 537/1 A very old inn, that seemed suffering the first pangs of being galvanized back to life and modernity. 1888 Athenæum 31 Mar. 401/3 Those unlucky stumblings into modernity which some archaizing translators do not avoid. 1904 M. SINCLAIR Div. Fire 415 My dear fellow, modernity simply means democracy. And when once democracy has been forced on us there's no good protesting any longer. 1923 National Geogr. Mag. Apr. 395/2 In their modernity..no other stations in the world claim as much interest from the public generally as the Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations, in New York. 1971 S. HOWATCH Penmarric (1972) V. i. 551, I have a series of blurred memories of a London blazing with modernitycocktails, nightclubs, jazz bands. 1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 74/1 A painter was free to place more or less stress on modernity and innovation without having his creative virility impugned.
b. spec. An intellectual tendency or social perspective characterized by departure from or repudiation of traditional ideas, doctrines, and cultural values in favour of contemporary or radical values and beliefs (chiefly those of scientific rationalism and liberalism). The earlier quots. illustrate the development of this sense from mainly critical or depreciative use of sense 1a. Cf. MODERNISM n. 3, 4.
[1900 Q. Rev. Apr. 321 Mere modernity..involved the complete jettison of every restraining principle in language, metre, and morals. 1906 Mind 15 402 There is a wholesome absence of modernity in Mr. Galloway's refusal..to make religion (or philosophy, for that matter) geo-centric. 1918 Polit. Sci. Q. 33 122 To say that it exalts medievalism, deplores modernity, and lures the reader on from sparkling epigram to startling if at times strained paradox, is merely to report that Chesterton is still Chesterton.] 1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 268 A last chapter upholds the validity of a religious attitude against the ‘idols of modernity’, that is, against the ‘reduction-fallacies’ that spring from an unwarranted use of the results of the natural sciences. 1958 J. MCAULEY End Modernity 57 In the nineteenth century the Christian residues..are systematically expelled under the action of naturalism, scientism and materialism, so that in the twentieth century ‘modernity’ stands forth in brutal self-confidence as atheist, technolatrous, ruthless totalitarianism. 1986 N. DE LANGE Judaism (1991) ii. 33 This quest for compromise between tradition and modernity may be seen as characteristic of Conservative Judaism, which is inherently pragmatic, and strives to avoid the dogmatism of the more extreme movements. 1990 Marxism Today Feb. 21/3 Between socialism and modernity there was no quarrel.

2. Something that is modern; a modern example of something.
1753 H. WALPOLE Corr. Sept. (1973) XXXV. 154 But here is a modernity, which beats all antiquities for curiosity. 1884 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/1 After he had..arranged himself in these modernities. 1909 Daily Chron. 23 Mar. 3/3 ‘The White Slave’ will be touring the country when the last of the fresh modernities at the Goupil Salon is banished to the dark corner against the wardrobe in the second best spare bedroom. 1953 R. FULLER Second Curtain iv. 61 The quart bottle of beer, the Penguin greenback, incongruous modernities.

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there are so many things I like about the movie "junebug" it's hard to know where to start. how about with amy adams who plays ashley in the movie. her performance is scary good. you watch this character in the film thinking you've never seen a character like her on film and yet you feel like it's someone you could know, it has that ring of truth about it.

sometimes I think casting in most of what it takes to make a good movie and that's true here. everyone in the film seems perfect for their characters. celia weston, who I've seen in other films but can't say which ones, is completely uncompromising playing the mother of the family in the film. you can compliment just about anyone in the film for their performance when you start thinking about it, even small characters who have very little screen time.

there's a scene in this movie where a husband sings, he's back in his hometown for the first time since he got married, and as the scene goes along the look on his wife's face shows that she had no idea that he was such a good singer. it's an amazing scene and has a strange emotional stillness about it, like you're waiting for something to happen and when it finally does it's not what you expected. the whole movie is like that and the director weaves in very still shots of the town where this takes place and that adds to the movie as well more than it should.

there's also the question in this film about what it means to leave behind the place you came from. in this case one of the characters left behind a very religious southern town for chicago and mostly you think he had to go. in a couple scenes though you see what he's left behind that he's missing out on, or maybe you see what he's brought with him along that way. the word that kept coming into my mind was "modern", although I'm not sure why. it made me question what the word means and what it means to move towards that idea.

OED definitions

vanity--


1. a. That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value or profit.
c1230 Hali Meid. 27 Hare confort & hare delit, hwerin is hit al meast, bute i flesches fule oer in weorldes uanite..? 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 331 ose vnwyse ledes at affyen hym in vanyte & in vayne ynges. c1340 HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 1619 us es e world, and e lyfe are-in, Ful of vanyte and of syn. 1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) III. 431 onkinge of enemyes is but vanite. c1450 LOVELICH Grail xliii. 316 Whanne alle this haddist ou seyn,..vpe thou ryse, and bethowhtest the Whethir it were soth oer vanite. c1480 HENRYSON Abbey Walk 51 (Bann.), Thy power and thy warldis pelf Is nocht bot verry vanitie. 1500-20 DUNBAR Poems xlvi. 98 This frustir luve all is bot vanite. 1611 BIBLE Ps. xxxix. 5 Euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. 1691 RAY Creation I. (1704) 76 We see nothing in the Heavens which argues Chance, Vanity or Error. 1834 MATHEW Serm. ii. 44 Yet you often..are disposed to own that all in this world is vanity.
b. Vain and unprofitable conduct or employment of time.
1303 R. BRUNNE Handl. Synne 3346 Forsoe hyt seme weyl to be Al here lyfe yn vanyte. c1340 HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 7228 ai..swa mysturned here air lyfyng In-tylle vanyte and flesschly lykyng. c1374 CHAUCER Troylus IV. 729 But efter al this nyce vanite, They took hire leve, and hom they wente alle. c1430 LYDG. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 219 Lat reson brydle thy sensualite,..Ageyn al worldly disordinat vanyte. 1514 BARCLAY Cyt. & Uplondyshman (Percy Soc.) 5 Men labour sorer in fruyteles vanyte, Than in fayre warkes of grete utylyte. 1567 Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 73, I pray the, Lord,..All vanitie and lieand word, Full far away thow put fra me. 1607 MELTON Sixe-folde Politician (Arb.) 114 As the enterludes may be tearmed the Schoole-houses of vanitie and wantonnes. 1612 Two Noble K. II. ii. 109 All those pleasures That wooe the wils of men to vanity. 1751 Transl. & Paraph. Sc. Ch. xxvii. 102 In Vanity ye waste your Days.
c. in vanity, in vain. Obs.1
1509 HAWES Conv. Swearers 23 Ye dare not take their names in vanyte.
2. a. The quality of being vain or worthless; the futility or worthlessness of something.
c1325 Prose Psalter li. 7 He was michel wor in his vanite. a1340 HAMPOLE Psalter xi. 1 A haly man at sees e vanyte of e warld mutiplid. 1382 WYCLIF Eph. iv. 17 That e walke not now, as and hethen men walken, in the vanyte of her witt. c1400 Destr. Troy 7121 Thus curstly at knight~hode..Voidet ere victory for vanite of speche. 1451 J. CAPGRAVE Life St. Aug. 9 In all is vanyte of his lif he happed to fynde a book at Tullius Cicero mad. 1535 COVERDALE Ecclus. xvii. 31 He hath pleasure in the vanyte of wickednes. 1662 J. DAVIES tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 31 A fabulous story, whereof the vanity is so much the more visible. 1674 Essex Papers (Camden) I. 200 This [rumour] alarmed me so much that I had little rest till Trear. spoke with King, who assured him of the vanity of it. 1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 159 2, I fell into a profound Contemplation on the Vanity of human Life. 1741 C. MIDDLETON Cicero II. viii. 216 The vanity of expecting any lasting glory. 1823 SCOTT Quentin D. xxxiv, The Bohemian had gone where the vanity of his dreadful creed was to be put to the final issue. 1834 Tait's Mag. I. 699/1 The noble Lord might have anticipated the vanity of his exertions. 1864 PUSEY Lect. Daniel (1876) 274 The vanity of the resistance of the kings of Judah.
b. The quality of being foolish or of holding erroneous opinions. Obs.
c1386 CHAUCER Miller's T. 649 Of his vanytee He hadde yboght hym knedying tubbes thre. Clerk's T. 194 Wol nat oure lord yet leue his vanytee? Wol he nat wedde? 1578 TIMME Calvin on Gen. 26 Whereby their vanitie is overthrowen which think that the world was a matter alwayes without forme. 1596 DALRYMPLE tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 46/10 That..[they] mycht now se thair awne daftnes, and lach or greit at thair awne vanitie. 1660 in Extr. St. P. rel. Friends Ser. II. (1911) 123 Your petitioner is in great dread and horrour of an oath (though hee detests the vanity of Quakers and such like giddy people).
3. a. The quality of being personally vain; high opinion of oneself; self-conceit and desire for admiration.
a1340 HAMPOLE Psalter xv. 4 Synn and vnclennes at ai ere in at folous aire flesch and e vanyte of aire blode. 1390 GOWER Conf. III. 166 That whil he stod in that noblesse, He scholde his vanite represse With suche wordes as he herde. a1400-50 Alexander 1730 Be vanyte & vayne glori at in i wayns kindlis. Ibid. 1784 All i vanyte to voide & i vayne pride. c1430 LYDG. Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 65 Yowre blynde fantesies now in hertis weyve Of childisshe vanyte, and lete hem over slyde. 1596 SPENSER St. Ireland Wks. (Globe) 627/1 They..through their owne vanitye..doe therupon build..historyes of theyr owne antiquitye. 1613 SHAKES. Hen. VIII, I. i. 85 What did this vanity But minister communication of A most poore issue? 1649 MILTON Eikon. B, The intention of this discourse was not fond ambition or the vanity to get a Name. 1705 STANHOPE Paraphr. I. 310 The vanity of wicked Men is scarcely more conspicuous than in the fond Imaginations they flatter themselves with. 1783 W. THOMSON Watson's Philip III (1839) 77 She cannot be vindicated from the imputation of female vanity, and the love of admiration on account of her exterior accomplishments. 1829 LYTTON Devereux I. i, His vanity was so mingled with good nature that it became graceful. 1881 M. E. HERBERT Edith 7 To the young wife's vanity and to Mr. Gordon's pride in his choice.
b. With a and pl.: An instance of this; an occasion for being vain.
1712-4 POPE Rape Lock I. 52 Think not, when Woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead. 1761 HUME Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 203 The nobility and gentry..who placed a vanity in these institutions. 1770 FOOTE Lame Lover 1 Wks. 1799 II. 57 To derive a vanity from a misfortune, will not I'm afraid be admitted as a vast instance of wisdom.
c. A thing of which one is vain; also slang, one's favourite liquor.
1854 PATMORE Angel in Ho. I. II. ix, She was my vanity, and oh All other vanities how vain! 1891 C. JAMES Rom. Rigmarole 114 It is advisable to wash it down with a long drink of the reader's particular vanity.
4. a. A vain, idle, or worthless thing; a thing or action of no value.
a1300 Cursor M. 53 at foly luue, at uanite, am likes now nan oer gle. c1340 HAMPOLE Prose Tr. 5, I satt by mine ane fleeande e vanytes of e worlde. c1450 Mankind 896 (Brandl), Thynke & remembyr, e world ys but a wanite. 1470-85 MALORY Arthur XXI. ix. 855, I had forsaken the vanytees of the world. 1535 COVERDALE 2 Kings xvii. 15 They despysed his ordinaunces..and walked in their awne vanities. 1545 BRINKLOW Compl. (1874) 83 Ye shuld turne from these vanitees vnto the liuinge God. 1633 in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 76 To run on in their sinful vanities. 1658 Ibid. II. 71 All I find as shee desires it for, is but to spend it uppon her vanities. 1673 CAVE Prim. Chr. II. ii. 33 The sights and sports of the Theatre and such like vanities. 1822 LAMB Elia I. Praise Chimney-Sweepers. A convenient spot..at the north side of the fair, not so far distant as to be impervious to the agreeable hubbub of that vanity. 1848 THACKERAY Van. Fair xli, As long as we have a man's body, we play our Vanities upon it, surrounding it with humbug and ceremonies.
b. An idle tale or matter; an idea or statement of a worthless or unfounded nature. Obs.
1340 Ayenb. 77 Holy wryt, et hise clepe leazinges..and metinges and uanites. c1340 HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 184 Many has lykyng trofels to here, And vanites wille blethly lere. c1440 Jacob's Well 166 Whanne ou iangelyst in cherch, or thynkest vanytees. 1500-20 DUNBAR Poems ix. 108, I knaw me..culpable..In wordis vyle, in vaneteis expreming. 1560 J. DAUS tr. Sleidane's Comm. 205 The Frenche men were thought to be authors and forgers of this vanitie. 1582 N. LICHEFIELD tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. 37 They be great southsayers, they haue good dayes and bad dayes,..they doe easily beleeue whatsoeuer vanitie. 1652 HEYLYN Cosmogr. I. 211 Turpin hath..interlaced his Storie with a number of ridiculous vanities. 1660 F. BROOKE tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 391 His Poem the Auracana..begins with this vanity, truely poetical and Romantick Spaniard-like. 1894 ‘MARK TWAIN’ in Century Mag. June 236/1 The claim that the knife had been stolen was a vanity and a fraud.
5. Emptiness, lightness; the state of being void or empty; inanity. Obs. rare.
a1400 Stockholm Med. MS. 127 A good oynement for e vanyte of e heed. a1400-50 Alexander 4774 It was bot vacant & voide, as vanite it were. 1587 LEVINS Pathw. Health (1632) 6 For the Vanity of the head Take the iuice of wall-wort,..and therewith annoint the temples.
6. N. Amer. a. = vanity table (see sense 7 below).
1937 ‘E. QUEEN’ Door Between xiv. 148 She sat down before the vanity to cold-cream her face. 1967 ‘V. SILLER’ Biltmore Call 124 Her make-up and perfume bottles and jars were still on a kidney-shaped vanity.
b. = vanity unit (sense 7 below).
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Advt.), Classic elegance for your bathroom is yours with this 30 × 20-in. vanity... Vitreous china top and bowl. 1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. XII. 8/2 (Advt.), Ceramic tile baths and vanities. 1984 Tampa (Florida) Tribune 5 Apr. (Sears Suppl.) 9/3 Start your bath remodeling with this lovely vanity.
7. attrib. and Comb., as vanity-bait, -giving, -huckster, sight; vanity bag, -box, -case, a small hand-bag, etc., for ladies, fitted with a mirror and powder-puff; vanity basin, a wash-basin for a vanity unit; vanity mirror, (a) a small make-up mirror, esp. as a fitting in a motor vehicle; (b) a dressing-table mirror; vanity number plate, U.S. vanity plate (see quot. 1967); vanity press, publisher orig. U.S., a publisher who publishes only at the author's expense; so vanity publishing; vanity set, (a) a set of cosmetics or toiletries, (b) U.S., a matching bath and vanity unit; vanity table, a dressing-table; vanity unit, a unit comprising a wash-basin set into a fixed dressing-table.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 404/1 The Vanity Bag. Containing on one side mirror, separate pocket for powder..with puff,..gusset pockets..for gold on other side, pocket for cards, papers, &c. 1946 K. TENNANT Lost Haven (1947) xviii. 295 The silver-beaded white vanity~bag that carried her money, her lipstick, her handkerchief. 1974 J. CLEARY Peter's Pence iii. 78 The note..had said she was spending the night with Fergus... She had taken a small vanity bag and slipped out of the apartment.
1816 JANE AUSTEN Emma II. xiv. 278, I should never have expected you to be lending your sanction to such vanity~baits for poor young ladies. 1972 House & Garden Dec.-Jan. 84/3 ‘Luxe’ vanity basin..£11.25.
1912 G. R. CHESTER Five Thousand an Hour ii. 10 She carried her own vanity box. 1978 N. MARSH Grave Mistake iv. 136 A vanity box..lay on the table.
1913 S. STORY Spirit of Paris 52 The exquisite femme du monde..has a final glance at herself, ‘vanity case’ in hand. 1957 Practical Wireless XXXIII. 531/1 The Sky Casket by Ever Ready..is of the vanity-case typeno controls or other external components being visible. 1979 M. MCCARTHY Cannibals & Missionaries xi. 323 He had slipped a folded plan of the house..into Eloise's vanity case, under her powder~puff, camouflaged by a thick layer of face-powder.
1892 Pall Mall G. 8 Aug. 6/3 Remembering..that enough of our public men do eat of this vanity-giving food.
1669 PENN No Cross Wks. 1782 II. 205 Let such of those Vanity-hucksters as have got sufficient be contented to retreat.
1959 Observer 1 Mar. 21/5 Visors with vanity mirror are flush fitting. 1966 T. PYNCHON Crying of Lot 49 i. 16 A half hour in front of her vanity mirror. 1971 ‘D. HALLIDAY’ Dolly & Doctor Bird viii. 100 The vanity mirror..was surrounded by fourteen ormulu makeup lamps. 1983 Listener 27 Oct. 25/2 (Advt.), Such thoughtful touches as an illuminated vanity mirror..and seat back map pockets are all standard. 1983 Daily Tel. 10 Oct. 13/4 They will sell you a personalised or ‘vanity’ number plate for as little as ten dollars.
1967 Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 804/3 Vanity plate, an automobile license plate bearing distinctive letters, numbers, or a combination of these and usually available at extra cost. 1974 ‘D. SHANNON’ Crime File (1975) xi. 194 The drivers who wanted to pay extra..could buy the vanity plates.
1969 C. ARMSTRONG Seven Seats to Moon vi. 61 Are you planning to pay that Vanity Press to publish your father's book? 1976 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Mar. 12/2, I read this book with the kind of horrified fascination with which one reads vanity press confessions.
1922 HOLLIDAY & VAN RENSSELAER Business of Writing 138 Numerous devices are employed by the ‘vanity publisher’ to lead the innocent author on toward becoming famous in his own eyes and those of his friends. 1978 Amer. N. & Q. Nov. 45/2 There are all sorts of literary histories, ranging from the pathetic things by which vanity publishers con local authors into expenditures far beyond their means, up to the CHEL and comparable works. 1984 H. SPURLING Secrets of Woman's Heart 19 Ivy placed Pastors and Masters..with a small firm of ‘vanity’ publishers called Heath Cranton in Fleet Lane, paying for publication herself.
1960 G. A. GLAISTER Gloss. Bk. 429/2 Vanity publishing, publishing on behalf of and at the expense of an author who pays for the production and often for the marketing of his book. 1981 V. GLENDINNING Edith Sitwell iii. 45 She had emerged from vanity publishing to the real thing... ‘I have found a publisher.’
1930 A. P. HERBERT Water Gipsies xix. 285 She lightly powdered her face. Lily had..given her a ‘vanity set’. 1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. B11/6 (Advt.), New tub. Toilet and vanity set. 1979 D. COOK Winter Doves II. i. 45 He had packed dolls' Vanity Sets into boxes.
c1440 Alph. Tales 166 Sho is not transfigurd..bod vnto er sightis at may be begylid with vanyte syght.
1936 L. C. DOUGLAS White Banners i. 9 The mirror of the vanity table. 1954 W. TUCKER Wild Talent (1955) xiv. 183 A vanity table likewise revealed occupied drawers. 1980 L. BIRNBACH et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 191/2 Women's locker rooms often boast vanity tables with combs and face powder.
1973 Vanity unit [see LIMED ppl. a. 2b]. 1983 Sunday Tel. 21 Aug. 31/4 The property has modern conveniences, including..fitted kitchen, bathroom with vanity unit and plenty of power points throughout.

8. a. Vanity Fair (after quot. 1678 below), a place or scene where all is frivolity and empty show; the world or a section of it as a scene of idle amusement and unsubstantial display.
[1678 BUNYAN Pilgr. (1900) 82 The name of that Town is Vanity; and at the town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity-Fair. It..beareth the name of Vanity-Fair, because the Town where 'tis kept is lighter than Vanity.]
1816 J. SCOTT Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 137 Such is the Palais Royal;a vanity faira mart of sin and seduction! 1827 SCOTT Chron. Canongate iii, Carrying so many bonny lasses to barter modesty for conceit and levity at the metropolitan Vanity Fair. 1857 TROLLOPE Barchester T. III. 110 But how preach..at all in such a vanity fair as this now going on at Ullathorne? 1861 THACKERAY Four Georges 72 Never was such a brilliant, jigging, smirking Vanity Fair as that through which he leads us.
attrib. 1848 THACKERAY Van. Fair xxv, The last scene of her dismal Vanity Fair comedy was fast approaching. Ibid. xli, Assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound.
b. Hence Vanity-Fairian. nonce-wd.
1848 THACKERAY Van. Fair xvii, Even with the most selfish disposition, the Vanity Fairian..can't but feel some sympathies and regret.

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part two the bergman triliogy of faith is "winter light". it stars gunnar bjornstrand at a parish priest having a crisis of faith. bjornstrand is one of those everyman actors in the mold of jimmy stewart. even when his characters are not acting morally or with kindness you're rooting for them to get back there. maybe that's it, you get the feeling that they were once in that place.

there is a scene in a one-room schoolhouse in this movie that's devasting. two characters are talking about their relationship, or why they aren't successful at having a relationship, and one of the characters finally comes clean and tells the truth. what happens in that moment where one person has to say to another one "I don't want to be with you even though you want to be with me". there's an unavoidable cruelty that can't be helped. sometimes, it's not unavoidable, it's asked for. this scene has that asking for and it delivers so honestly it's hard to watch. and yet it's the scene in the movie that went by the fastest and I'm guessing will stay around the longest afterwards.

OED definitions

Saviour--

1. a. One who delivers or rescues from peril.
a1300 Cursor M. 4666 His nam ai chaunged, fra at our, And cald him ‘warld sauueour’. c1375 Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Petrus) 674 And petir till hym [Paul] is can say:..far wele ay..lledar of heile and saweoure!’ 1535 COVERDALE Ecclus. xlvi. 1 A greate sauioure vnto the electe of God. 1560 J. DAUS tr. Sleidane's Comm. 120 Saynct Genevefa is the saviour of Paris. 1611 BIBLE Neh. ix. 27 Thou gauest them sauiours, who saued them out of the hand of their enemies. 1711 POPE Temp. Fame 163 Bold Scipio, saviour of the Roman state; Great in his triumphs, in retirement great. 1774 WILKES Corr. (1805) IV. 185 Those who..now dare to persecute the saviour of India. 1871 BROWNING (title) Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Saviour of Society. 1887 A. E. HOUSMAN Shropshire Lad i, To fields that bred them brave, The saviours come not home to-night.
b. transf. in nonce-uses.
c1399 CHAUCER Purse 16 (Fairf.) Now purse that ben to me my lyves lyght And saveour as doun in this worlde here. 1552 LATIMER Serm. 1st Sund. Epiph. (1584) 297 Likewise shippes and boates..vpon the Seas are Sauiours, for they saue vs from the fury, rage, and tempest of the Sea. 1804 Something Odd III. 126 Thus died the means I had looked to as the saviour of myself and children.
2. a. He who saves mankind from sin and its consequences: as a title of God, and esp. of Christ (in the latter application often Our Saviour). Now always with capital S.
a1300 Cursor M. 15015 Welcum sauuer! lang has ou ben, Al sal thoru e be bett. 13.. Coer de L. 2087 He swore a ful grete othe, By Jesu Cryst our Saviour. 1362 LANGL. P. Pl. A. XI. 66 Whi wolde god vr saueour suffre such a worm In such a wrong wyse the wommon to bigyle? a1450 MYRC Instr. Par. Priests 12 ef ow plese thy sauyoure ef thow be not grete clerk Loke thow moste on thys werk. 1472 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 16 In the name of our lord Ihesu Criste our Savyour: Amen. c1500 Lancelot 2096 This is the vyrgyne, this is the blessit flour That Ihesu bur that is our salweour. 1513 BRADSHAW St. Werburge II. 354 The yere of our saueour in his humanite viii hundreth complet .v. and seuentie. 1602 SHAKES. Ham. I. i. 159 That Season..Wherein our Sauiours Birth is celebrated. 1643 SIR T. BROWNE Relig. Med. I. §3 At the sight of a Crosse or Crucifix I can dispense with my hat, but scarse with the thought or memory of my Saviour. 1667 MILTON P.L. III. 412 Hail Son of God, Saviour of Men. a1738 SWIFT Serm. Mutual Subj. (1744) 11 Our Saviour tells us that every Man is our Neighbour. 1753 HANWAY Trav. (1762) I. III. xxviii. 121 Who is the king, the lawgiver, the redeemer, and the savior. 1813 SHELLEY Q. Mab VII. 144 Millions shall live and die, Who ne'er shall call upon their Saviour's name. 1864 TENNYSON En. Ard. 783 O God Almighty, blessed Saviour,..Uphold me, Father.
b. to receive one's Saviour, to give (a person) his Saviour, etc.: common ME. phrases referring to the reception and administration of the Eucharist.
c1400 Rom. Rose 6434 But thou yeve me my Saviour At Ester. a1450 MYRC Instr. Par. Priests 1883 And ef he aske hys sauyour, Gyf hym hyt wy gret honour. 1470-85 MALORY Arthur XVII. xi. 706 Thenne asked she her saueour and as soone as she had receyued hit the soule departed from the body.
3. Saint Saviour. (See SAINT a. 3.) a. Used in oaths. Obs. b. [= eccl. L. ecclesia Sancti Salvatoris], the title of the cathedral church of Rome, usually called St. John Lateran. c. The title of the monastic order founded by St. Bridget.
13.. Guy Warw. 5318 ou wroche glotoun losaniour, ou schalt e eld, bi seyn Sauour. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 2908 (Kölbing) Forth went anon sir Kay & ledde his fader, sir Antour, to e chirche of seyn sauour. 1728 CHAMBERS Cycl. s.v., Order of St. Saviour, is a religious Order founded by St. Bridget. 1873 J. H. BLUNT Myrr. our Ladye p. xi, The Monastery of St Saviour and St Bridget of Syon of the Order of St Augustine.
4. attrib. (appositive), as in saviour-ark, -arm, -god, -youth; also saviour-like adj.
1836 GLADSTONE in Good Words (1871) 366 Is there..no *saviour ark That..bears the children, loved of God and blest, Unto the land of rest?
18.. SHELLEY Assassins ii. Prose Wks. 1888 II. 158 How many holy liars..would his *saviour arm drag from their luxurious couches.
1738 WESLEY Ps. XXIV. vi, This is the chosen Royal Race That seek their *Saviour-God to see.
1587 GOLDING De Mornay xxx. 568 There are two commings of Christ, the one in lowlynes.., Poore, Lowely, and *Sauiourlyke; and the other in maiestie.
1801 SOUTHEY Thalaba X. xxxv, Laila rush'd between To save the *saviour Youth.

b. Special combinations: saviour's blanket, flannel, in Sussex and Kent, a local name for several plants with greyish downy leaves, esp. lamb's ears, Stachys lanata, or mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
1882 H. FRIEND Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 10 In Sussex the small plant (Stachys lanata) with a similar leaf is called ‘Saviour's Blanket’. 1927 V. WOOLF Jrnl. 4 July (1980) III. 144 They [sc. slightly furred cheeks] are like saviours flannel, of which she picked me a great bunch, in texture.
Hence saviouress, a female saviour; saviourhood, saviourship, the quality or fact of being a saviour.
c1553 LATIMER in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 1309/2 When men can not be content that she [sc. our Lady] was a creature saued, but as it were a sauioresse, not neding saluation. 1649 JER. TAYLOR Gt. Exemp. III. Disc. xix. 143 Polycrita Naxia [expired] being saluted the Saviouresse of her countrey. 1650 FULLER Pisgah IV. v. 91 Finding an Egyptian wronging an Israelite he kils him; shewing therein some signes of that Saviour-ship, which God intended him for. 1864 P. BROOKS Myst. Iniq., etc. xviii. (1893) 317 What if there had been for ever a Saviourhood in the Deity. 1893 Athenæum 30 Dec. 919/2 The Indian Buddhist Cult of Avalokita and his Consort Tr the Saviouress. 1900 R. J. CAMPBELL in Chr. World Pulpit 31 Jan. 71 The Saviourhood of Christ. 1905 MARZIALS Browning 49 Unfolding the mysteries of his saviourship of society.

edwards drive-in/off the rack

when I was a kid we had this great big tree in the front of our yard. it hads knots all over it and a huge trunk and it was the center of most games that went on. one of these games, the first one of them I remember playing, we called “super-heros”. basically the game involved being the super hero of your choice and figuring out ways to emulate that super-hero. it was my yard and I was a pain in the ass about winning games as a kid so I was always captain america. after a while no one ever thought about even trying to be captain america because it became a given. there were usually four or five of us and green latern and the flash and spiderman were the other favorites mostly. there was this kid next door named willie who was kind of crazy and we’d make him be the hulk because he was good at acting puffed up and he’d even rip his shirts once in a while. my father was a painter and my big claim to fame was painting the top of a garbage can. there were actually two versions of this, the first one was metal and it was retired because kids didn’t like to have it thrown at them.

all this came to mind because I started thinking about what I read as a kid and comic books were the first thing I can remember. comic books and the back of baseball cards. I also remember getting a book about basketball history out of the library the first time we went and reading it twice. this is why I can tell you that bob pettit played for the st. lous hawks, who no longer exist, and that he was the first player to score 20,000 points in NBA history. I found other basketball history books and in every one pettit was described as the guy who tried harder than anyone else. for some reason I identified with him although I would never see him play. he remained my favorite basketball player until I saw john havilichek a few years later.

after that I picked up one of my father’s spy books and that phase took up a couple years. I don’t think anyone ever knew I was reading them which made it better somehow. that morphed into books that I was told to read at school and then who knows.

this brief history is to point out the I never read children’s books, or what were considered children’s books. the hobbit was foreign to me until I saw lord of the rings and I think the movie picked up after that book. another one I missed was “the chronicles of narnia” by c.s. lewis. a lot of my superhero friends read this book if I remember correctly and I even picked it up once and just didn’t get into it. I always felt like I’d missed out on something for some reason so when I went to go to the movies tonight and showed up at the wrong time for the fourth different movie in about six months I asked if anything else was playing. the chronicles of narnia was in previews I was told. so I bought a ticket and thought I’d find out what I missed during my childhood.

it’s my belief now that I missed nothing. what a load of crap this movie is. it’s not just a bad movie that keeps trying to be overly cute and sentimental while reinforcing all those christian values we all already know about, but it’s a completely confused movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be. it’s made by disney so it has talking animals. it’s got a cute little girl who threatens to hijack the movie and nearly does deservedly so. it’s got lord of the rings type battle scenes. it’s got the whole story of christ, except that he’s a big lion with liam neeson’s voice I believe. it’s got tilda swinton doing good work as the white witch who gets to do an indiana jones don’t look at the ark type of scene. and finally at the end a scene right out the first star wars where they all get crowned at the end of the picture.

worst of all is that people are defending this movie because it does skew so close to christianity. it's the same reason people defended mel gibson's little torture fest. how did we become so stupid? the story of christ is a lovely story and for some reason you're not allowed to say that these days, or you're supposed to be ashamed of noticing that christianity happened so fast because it was a kind religion which wasn't the norm in a lot of ways. instead you have people trying to turn christ into a lethal weapon character or a lion with an irish accent.

jesus.

stratum

maybe you didn’t get much sleep. maybe you stayed out all day because you live alone and turning the key some days and walking in seems like too much. maybe the woman who lives below you who puts sad notes on her door like “I’m not going out too much these days so please don’t leave food outside my door” catches you outside wearing four layers of clothes and says “I didn’t complain about the noise above me” even though no one has asked you to keep it down. maybe you say “I’m hardly ever home”. maybe she licks her lips making you want to turn away and says “let me ask you something, do you really think we ought to be sending people into outer space”. “let me get the door for you” you might say as another neighbor cuts in front of you, the neighbor who cut in front of you in the laundry room six months back sending you off to the laundry-mat where your cell phone got stolen. maybe the fucker doesn’t bother to hold the door and as you go to open it your umbrella gets tangled and jams your wrist which has been sore for weeks for some reason. maybe he says sorry and you keep walking and hear him put the mail key in the slot as you climb the first set of stairs. maybe you go inside and check your e-mail and no one has e-mailed you for hours and you wonder where all your friends are and why they aren’t paying more attention to your moods. or maybe everyone e-mailed you, but not that one person you were thinking you’d like to get an e-mail from because there’s always that isn’t there. maybe you spend a bit too many hours of your life in front of computers.