We were scouting where we might settle after we left Iowa, and the valley looked like nothing we'd ever seen, a place where farming looked totally unfamiliar, except for the spots where cattle grazed or hay was being made.
This is the week when, at least for those of us whose privilege of race and class allow it, we might begin to exit the charged moment of crying in the face of loss, of the violent taking of life, when we might settle for the tears we shed last week.
We're considering a lawsuit, although we might settle for a free pizza coupon.
We might settle for "late postmodernism," a term that suggests the peculiar statelessness of contemporary fiction, which finds itself wandering — not unhappily — between tradition and novelty, realism and anti-realism, the mass audience and the élitist critic.
If the phrase weren't so tied to George W. Bush, we might settle on calling it a decade of "political shock and awe".
The definition we settled on might not be perfect, but at least we are trying to be transparent".
Laurence Hidalgo, who lived on the neighboring farm and who, the owner had written, looked after the house, came by to tell us (or tell David, since she spoke neither English nor Spanish, and the other two of us spoke no French) about heat, lights, sheets and towels as well as help with any problems we might have settling in.
We might as well settle on either 147 pounds or 154 pounds and then fight".
About nature, then, we might have to settle for something less than epistêmê in the strict sense.
