simulacrum
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simulacrum englanniksi
A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.
(ux)
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin),) which fell from heaven, was wont to be laved with every coming spring; (..)
(RQ:Ruskin Modern Painters) that nightly we lay down our gold, to fashion forth simulacra of peasants, in gay ribands and white bodices, singing sweet songs, and bowing gracefully to the picturesque crosses: and all the while the veritable peasants are kneeling, songlessly, to veritable crosses, in another temper than the kind and fair audiences deem of, and assuredly with another kind of answer than is got out of the opera catastrophe; (..) If all the gold that has gone to paint the simulacra of the cottages, and to put new songs in the mouths of the simulacra of the peasants, had gone to brighten the existent cottages, and to put new songs in the mouths of the existent peasants, it might in the end, perhaps, have turned out better so, not only for the peasant, but for even the audience.
A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation, a semblance.
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(RQ:Carlyle On Heroes)
(RQ:Carlyle Friedrich) or (w), that has got hold of him.
(RQ:Thackeray Four Georges)
(RQ:Black Green Pastures)
(RQ:NYT)’: Dreamer, live in the here and now|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429190943/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/movies/24syne.html|date=23 October 2008|passage=Inside the warehouse, he builds a replica of his world line by line, actor by actor, until fiction and nonfiction blur. Like the full-scale map in Luis Borges|Jose Luis Borges's short story "(w)," the representation takes on the dimensions of reality to the point of replacing it. The French theorist (w) uses Borges's story as a metaphor for his notion of the simulacrum, which probably explains why Caden, who has trouble naming things, considers titling his production "Simulacrum."
(quote-book)
(RQ:Atlantic) We shouldn't have to dodge traffic on an eight-lane road just to get to a simulacrum of an inclusive urban place. The problem is not too much Disneyland thinking—it's not enough.
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