bardiphouka (
bardiphouka) wrote2010-07-26 02:29 pm
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Speaking of the Circus..well, sort of
It used to be that one wanted to run away from home TO something. To join the circus, to Boston to be a folk singer or San Francisco to be a Hippy or to Seattle to be angsty or Vancouver to be a star. But it seems like the majority of people today are literally running AWAY rather than to.
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"I'm going to run away to London and become famous".
It's always been "running away to"
Running is running and it always involves running away from something - even if sometimes the runner actually manages to "go to" somewhere and do or become something, it's incidental because they take with them what they're trying to leave behind - and eventually it catches up with them.
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