Liberty can manifest in small, odd forms rather than grand ones
Evidence
I laughed. What strange shapes liberty takes: some bow-legged particolored jockey, some stumpy pony lumbering toward the winning post, some dusty track measured in furlongs, some holiday crowd in a free state. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 263
Categorization
- SEED: Concrete, slightly comic imagery for an abstraction (liberty) through the racing scene - an approach worth imitating when depicting freedom or relief.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 263
- XREF: connects to: In narrow circles individuality requires leadership or complete inner independence — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 621
Broader Connections
- In narrow circles individuality requires leadership or complete inner independence
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 621