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((ar.sah : 'Court, open area (of a house, —the 'play-ground' of children), an area; a plain; a chess-board; a space (of place or time), period, time, duration, term; an interval, a while; delay'. (Platts p.760)
chal-pher : 'Motion to and fro; motion'. (Platts p.438)
FWP:
SETS == FILL-IN
MOTIFS
NAMES
TERMSDid the 'people of this place' keep on moving around a lot, going to and fro, but finding themselves unable to escape the place 'right here'? With regard to this reading, probably no American of my generation could fail to be reminded of 'Hotel California', with its wonderfully ominous closing lines:
'Relax' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'Or alternatively, if we take the kar construction literally, did the people first move around a lot, going to and fro, and then afterwards decide to stop moving and stay 'right here'? And if so, was this decision made despairingly (think of Beckett), or indifferently, or resignedly, or sociably, or lazily? Or perhaps the decision was made as a free, deliberate choice, as in
{7,7}.