Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.
I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle.
Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.
Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.
If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
No one goes to Vegas for any sort of business. You go there to purely have fun, and as soon as you start getting in the vicinity, you feel the energy of the places. Normally as a DJ, I'm very much "working," even though I'm enjoying myself, but Vegas always brings out a little something extra in me. I've had my wildest nights there!
Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
You introduced me to Danger and Will Robinson, but you neglected to acquaint me with the other two. ” “Fine,But you can’t make fun of their names. They’re very sensitive. ” “I would never. ” I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, “This is Beam Me Up. ” Then to my right. “And this is Scotty.
Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.
Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.
There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm.
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
