I have accepted the challenge to post the cover of seven books that I love: no explanation, no review, just the cover. Each time I post a cover, I’ll ask a friend to take up the challenge.Meanwhile, here are 100 words on a word in the title:
Dumps (June)
In the dumps, an idiom for the blues, extends to collective sense
of despondency, unhappiness tending towards despair. It’s not despair, only a
group sense of loss dictated by mood and circumstance. Dumps is a plural noun
for rundown dwellings, neglected premises. For those on the street, this may be
a packing case under the Brooklyn Bridge. In June it is shade, in January you
could die in the snow. The verb explains this state of affairs. People dump on
other people. People dump other people. They send them to a dump site,
believing they’ve solved things. People dump responsibility.
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