In politics it is a well-worn and often effective tactic – you hug your opponent so close, narrow their political space so effectively, steal their ground so comprehensively that either they have nothing distinctive left to say or, even better, head off to the wilder shores of extremism.
You know: halfway between killing all them kids and the bit where he fucks off to the wilds of the Arctic, Frankenstein sits him down and goes: "Let's try this.
Although Minnesota had more scoring chances, the Ducks won 53 face-offs to the Wild's 30.
With that passage, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the fat Scotsman waddled off to join the wildest wild-goose chase in the history of western thought, which is the attempt to capture for the various sciences of humanity the precision and prestige of mathematics.
Stars in Her Eyes Maurice Sendak's most famous children's book character is probably Max, the little boy who in his sleep sails off to the land "where the wild things are".
Whether he intended to or not, Ray had opened fire on two very distinct cultures at one and the same time: the white-bread mass culture that was on its guard against sexuality of any kind (and especially the black kind), and the black religious community, which felt that gospel was the Lord's music, and thus should be off-limits to the wild secular shenanigans that Ray represented.
"We went off together to the wilds of Durango where she was filming a tequila western," he says.
He used that chance to run off and return to the wild man, who gave him armor, a horse, and a sword.
I, on the other hand, like to dash off to wild places like the Galápagos Islands or Kruger National Park in South Africa so I can hike and be close to the world of animals.
Dallas 5, at Minnesota 4: Jason Spezza scored his fourth goal of the series and added three assists, and goalie Kari Lehtonen and the Stars needed every last one of them to hold off the Wild to wrap up the Western Conference series in six games.
