"The force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given color to their lifetime"
2007-01-09 12:34:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It basically means that there are some things that has happened in our lives, will taunt us forever. They are our deepest, grayest moments.
2007-01-09 12:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by GucciGirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds to me as if the writer recognizes that people visit the places where big historic events occurred. Many people go to the Gettysburg battlefield, the Manassas battlefields, the site of the Roswell UFS sightings. People visit the site of the Normandy landings, the Pearl Harbor bombings, and even the sites of the Underground Railroad in upstate NY. Folks are drawn to the sites where history happened.
2007-01-09 12:46:02 · answer #2 · answered by Joseph J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People hangout at places that have a specific personal meaning to them. A place where some major life event has occurred. People say they are going to their local haunt, the place where they socialize. A place where they are accepted and feel alive. A place where their presence can be found. "The force of doom" refers to fact that people are creatures of habit, they continually return to the same place as if doomed to repeat the same behavior. People will habitually return to places that have a personal meaning to them.
2007-01-09 12:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by ThinkaboutThis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reminds me of all the tourist at the WTC ground zero
2007-01-09 15:44:49 · answer #4 · answered by Jewlgrl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow. sorry, that ones out there. i cant figure it out.
2007-01-09 12:42:54 · answer #5 · answered by Grant J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋