"Scars of Independence" makes lookers-on of us all, forcing readers to confront the visceral realities of a conflict too often bathed in warm, nostalgic light.
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Echoing a similar moment in the ill-fated "site-specific performance event" that Con has written — when Nina suddenly addresses the befuddled lookers-on — Con at one point storms to the front of the stage and stares us down.
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This fish was reported to be sighted for several years, resplendent in all its ornaments. While constructing the dam, a temple of God Hanuman was simultaneously constructed. Here, the lookers on the construction site, first paid obeisance daily, before commencing the work. For accumulation of water, a 200-yard sloping waste weir was built which also facilitate Eel fish from the back-waters of the sea to enter the lake by rivulets for spawning.
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According to the Christian writer Lactantius, "in addition to the freedom of speech that pours forth every obscenity, the prostitutes, at the importunities of the rabble, strip off their clothing and act as mimes in full view of the crowd, and this they continue until full satiety comes to the shameless lookers-on, holding their attention with their wriggling buttocks".Lactantius, Instit. Divin. 20.6. Juvenal also refers to the nude dancing, and perhaps to prostitutes fighting in gladiatorial contests.Juvenal, Satire 6.250–251, as cited by Culham, "Women in the Roman Republic," p. 144.
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Good fun may be expected, as some of the players are reputed to be > exceedingly expert at the game. Some fears have been expressed on the part > of intending spectators that accidents were likely to occur through the ball > flying about in too lively a manner, to the imminent danger of lookers on, > but we understand that the game will be played with a flat circular piece of > wood, thus preventing all danger of its leaving the surface of the ice. > Subscribers will be admitted on presentation of their tickets. > ;Game report HOCKEY – At the Rink last night a very large audience gathered > to witness a novel contest on the ice.
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Good fun may be expected, as some of the players are reputed to be > exceedingly expert at the game. Some fears have been expressed on the part > of intending spectators that accidents were likely to occur through the ball > flying about in too lively a manner, to the imminent danger of lookers on, > but we understand that the game will be played with a flat circular piece of > wood, thus preventing all danger of its leaving the surface of the ice. > Subscribers will be admitted on presentation of their tickets. By moving ice hockey game indoors, the smaller dimensions of the rink initiated a major change from the outdoor version of the game, limiting organized contests to a nine-man limit per team.
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A chance incidence of coming across an abandoned newborn baby amidst a crowd of curious on-lookers on the side of the road sets in chaotic motion the apparently fulfilled life of Mandira, the housewife of a high-ranking police officer. She makes up her mind and takes the baby to the hospital. But the attending doctors' casual chat between themselves recalls in her mind the buried memories of her own baby from a premarital encounter and she becomes anxious to get back her abandoned child of whose whereabouts or fate she knows nothing. While her high social situation encumbers her efforts to track down her child, the primordial mother in her overrides all the inhibitions and hindrances and finally she meets him in his modest shanty-like accommodation.
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Baraka (another interpreter) was certain a serpent had spat upon my leg- "it could not have been a bite". Dr. M'nanagee, the sultan's brother, knew the disease perfectly; he could send me a cure for it – and a mild gentle peasant of the Wanyambo race came with his wife, a young pleasing like person, to attend me. With the soft touch of a woman he examined the limb, made cuts over the skin with a penknife, ordered all lookers-on outside the hut, when his wife produced a scroll of plantain-leaf, in which was a black paste. This was moistened from the mouth and rubbed into the bleeding cuts, making them smart; afterwards a small piece of lava was dangled against my leg and tied as a charm round the ankle.
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The middle Scots inscriptions carved on the gatehouse centrepiece refer to the onlooker's appreciation of the architecture and the eminence of the Regent himself in the building's own voice: > South tower > I pray all luikaris on this luging > With gentile E to gif thair juging > I pray all lookers on this lodging, > With gentle eye to give their judging. > North tower > The moir I stand on oppin hitht > My faultis moir subject ar to sitht > The more I stand on open height, > My faults more subject are to sight. > (As I am so prominent, so my faults are more obvious) > Internal (exit) arch > Esspy speik furth and spair nocht > Considder veil I cair notht > See, speak forth and spare not (or possibly; question not), > Consider well, I care not.Fleming, J. S., (1905), 167.
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