The Graduate

[RiverNotch]

If there's a road, there's no reason for your clothes to be tattered unlesss you rolled your way up. 'Track' would be a better word.

Maybe trail? -- and a wholesale reconstruction. Also, I wonder if I turned this into an ekphrasis.....there's this David-Friedrich painting I'm somehow reminded of by this thing. I'll try it -- edited above.

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Although perhaps the image approaches melodrama....

Isn't that Shelley contemplating the Alps? Very upper class English 19rh century. Torn clothes, even while out hiking, would be an abominable thought. Nope.

thus snipped away. apparently, the picture is used in publications of the romantics (as if all romantic paintings dealt with the same subjects....*squints at all those damn pre-raphaelite ophelias*), so i suppose the misconception is developed. nay, 'tis german -- and at this point, no longer germane? another pun forced.

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and as for torn clothes, i'm still on the fence as to whether that's a point of emphasis, or a point of melodrama, so yeah. i see where you're getting at, though.