turney@cs.cornell.EDU (Jenn Turney) (06/10/91)
Michael Graham asks (and asks and asks): >Will someone please tell me what: > > "be running up that road > be running up that hill > be running up that building" > >means? Well, Michael, no definitive answer, but I was musing on this the other day and thinking about the relative slopes of these things (roads, hills, buildings). Definitely increasing, from horizontal, to gradually sloping, to vertical. A progression of the difficulty of tasks she could tackle "with no problem" with the capabilities of this other person that she can't with her own ("if I onlycould"). Jenn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | turney@cs.cornell.edu | Dept of Computer Science | Cornell University | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear | | saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God | | knows the answer to THAT is, don't we all ANYWAY; might as well get | | paid for it. -- Elaine Dundy | -------------------------------------------------------------------------