But stewards seek to preserve and masters want to conquer.
"I've been trying to figure out a way to economically preserve these masters in a digital format, and the library is interested in making historically important material available.
So they will preserve the physical masters for us and make them available to academics and anyone who goes to the library, and Universal retains the right to commercially exploit the masters".
Yet it should be clear by now that by choosing to do little, interpretively, with art, you end up doing a lot to preserve existing ideologies and master narratives so long in place that we barely notice them.
The last few machines capable of cutting a metal mother – the stamp that imprints the plastic vinyl – were purchased at auction by the Church of Scientology, whose followers believed that the best way to preserve speeches of the master, L Ron Hubbard, for posterity was a 33⅓ album.
Where blacks and whites in the US are concerned, race was specifically constructed in order to preserve the power differential between master and slave, and to protect the master's property and outward integrity, even as he consorted, usually by force, with his female slaves.
Hydrogen must be mastered to preserve safety.
Every hard-fought effort to protect our union has demanded the same combination of steely resolve and necessary compromises that Lincoln mastered to preserve the union and end slavery.
There's no more "violence" implicit in the usage than there is sublimated religiosity in Holden's New York cabbies saying "Jesus Christ!" It's just an American idiom, lovingly preserved by a master of them.
The American instinct for preserving its own master narratives and the problem of impoverished language is, unfortunately, a marriage made in hell.
