ThouGHts WHIlE StarinG at A Wall
while putting up the Christmas lights at my place of work (a house if you didn't know... and not mine), i saw a random space between the property i was on and the property next door. of course, i immediately got to the questions "who owns that? is that no man's land?" aside from the fact that i thought about this rather oft-used phrase 'no-man's land' for the first time as land that no one owned and not just as land out in the middle of nowhere, it got me to thinking. why wouldn't the phrase have been this is "God's land?"
people always got to be so negative, ha.
until then---
4 comments:
why do you think that being no man's land instead of god's land is being negative? :-m
just because it's "NO" man's land, haha :P
I like that you came across a context in which no man's land doesn't seem to be connected to war. I most closely associate the term with the strip of land between former East & West Germany or the spaces between the trenches in WWI, etc. Unless of course you view private property as warfare, which I guess it is. Damn! Anyway, it's all God's Land.
hm... i feel as though i heard of that before, but is yet another one of those things that i don't think about when i hear the phrase.
private property is TOTALLY warfare... it's all about land!
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