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Request: What are your favorite powerful images?
I’m looking for examples of powerful, effective images, either word pictures or real pictures.
Word pictures can include things like scenes from novels, speeches, dialog from a play, vivid descriptions of people or scenery from magazine or newspaper articles, or even familiar similies like “as stupid as dirt.” If there are some words that made you almost literally see what the other person was talking about, let me know about them. For example, throughout his I have a dream speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. used words to paint images; of the current civil-rights situation in America, and of what the future could hold if everyone embraced his vision.
Literal pictures can include anything from the world of art (paintings, sketches, sculptures), or photographs, animations, or movies that clearly communicate a message. For example, the scene from the TV show I Love Lucy, where Lucy and Ethel are working in the candy factory is a great image of gradually being overwhelmed by little things coming at you faster and faster.
So let’s have them. What are your favorite images?
Roy Jacobsen
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