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Illustration of the road by Kay Nielsen for the 1914 fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, whose title Tolkien uses in one of his walking songs for Aman, the desired other world. [1] "The Road Goes Ever On" is a title that encompasses several walking songs that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote for his Middle-earth legendarium.
Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, romanized: Piknik na obochine, IPA: [pʲɪkˈnʲik nɐ ɐˈbot͡ɕɪnʲe]) is a philosophical science fiction novel by the Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that was written in 1971 and published in 1972.
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"Old Dirt Road" uses the road as a metaphor for a point of stability in an unstable world and a life subject to variability. [4] In the line originally provided by Nilsson, life is described as "trying to shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind." [3] [4] Even though the road is apparently stable, it too is at risk from the possibility of a ...
For example, if a person (as an editor or as a reader, for example) happens across a way to do any thing in a 'better' fashion than is commonly done, then the risk of taking the road 'less traveled' may seem desirable. Of course, if this is done repeatedly, this 'road' might become a trail that will become the road often traveled.
A common interpretation of the phrase has been as an expression of the land being empty of inhabitants. [31] [32] Others have argued that in the phrase, "a people" is defined as a nation. [33] Historian Keith Whitelam and Christian activist Mitri Raheb claim that Zionists used this phrase to present Palestine as being "without inhabitants". [34 ...
Stephen Garrard Post, writing about altruism, suggests that good intentions are often not what they seem and that mankind normally acts from less worthy, selfish motives—"If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, it is partly because that is the road they generally start out on." [12]
In Isaak Levitan's well-known "mood landscape", the Vladimirka takes on a symbolic meaning.. The Vladimir Highway (Russian: Влади́мирский тракт, Vladimirskiy trakt), familiarly known as the Vladimirka (Влади́мирка), was a road leading east from Moscow to Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod.