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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Just 11 unique hits for this one. I like “the grand scream of things” quite a lot – it captures the frenzy and chaos of life when viewed as a totality. According to the first example, this may be a “phonological perseveration” – rather than an eggcorn – when it occurs in speech. Examples:
Utterance: In the grand scream of things.
Target: In the grand scheme of things.
I said this while lecturing one afternoon: yes, I was lecturing about slips of the tongue! The /r/ in ‘grand’ got reused in the following word. Technically: we’d call it a phonological perseveration.
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english … s/slipfaqs
But what I struggle with, and perhaps because I am not yet advanced enough in the way of Buddhism, or perhaps because I am concerning myself with things that do not matter in the grand scream of things, is the notion that the “emptiness of all things” is but one level of reality.
http://zenbuddhism.tribe.net/thread/380 … 49a9e010f4
The other fighters also launched missiles, and followed up with volleys from their own weapons, scoring a few kills, but doing little damage in the grand scream of things.
http://www.lordsofthebattlefield.com/fo … 5a0709bd8f
In the grand scream of things, she could have been my wife.
And for my weakness this is now lost for life.
Could it all have been changed with one little word?
Would we then be together no matter how absurd?
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/montoya/Advance
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