"The orcs have been here"
Families who share literature together have a rich history and vocabulary with which to communicate depth of feeling, as Gladys Hunt captures well:
"When we went to visit a favorite spot and saw that much of hat we remembered as beautiful had changed, our son said, 'The orcs have been here,' and we didn't need to say more." (Honey for a Child's Heart p76)That expression alone captures for me the power of literary allusion.
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Dan and I say that about a construction site near our home now. Every day for the past few months three huge machines pound into beautiful rock formations that are thousands of years old. We think of those machines as modern day orcs.
I wouldn't be surprised if Gladys Hunt's son was looking at something similar when he uttered those words.
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