Piranesi had understood that the past and ruins could still speak to the present, in the sense that time – atmospheric, existential and mental – had regained possession of its matter.
Wright had always been a writer with a preference for the broad brush, but his early books emerged from a conviction that he was in possession of an original subject matter: the fiery passage of the "black boy", striving to become a man in a society bent on suppressing his masculinity.
Many in the gun rights movement believe there should be no gun-free zones and seek to make the public possession of firearms a matter of course.
So on any view, even if there was no robbery or burglary, there was a serious matter concerning possession of a firearm".
Philip Smith, president and founder of the National African American Gun Association, said whether or not a black man is legally in possession of a gun might not matter in the tense moments of an encounter with an officer.
"I've always felt that in matches likely to be settled by the odd goal, it is the quality and location of possession that matters.
It did not particularly matter how he took possession of it, or what sort of use he made of it: what mattered was that he began acting as its owner without dispossessing anyone else.
