The future is thus manipulated through planning (i.e., "horizontal eschatology") in place of eschatological "hoping" and "waiting for" fulfillment.
Moments from yesterday and from centuries ago – a sword blow, the painting of eyelashes before a mirror of polished metal, a lethal musket shot, a caravel staving its hull against a reef – they dwell in us, waiting for a fulfillment.
Today, six months after Mr. Saleh stepped down, a head-high wooden wall has been raised to separate the women from the men and more than a thousand people remain in the square, waiting for the fulfillment of a revolution stalled by the former president's lingering influence and internal divisions.
The community they have created together barely coalescing, and now, after 40 years in the desert (not to mention 400 years of slavery), of waiting for the fulfillment of God's Promise, they're almost there.
We wait for full salvation; for the cosmic fulfillment of that which began when God became incarnate from the Virgin Mary and was made man - a man born in ignoble and humble circumstances, a man not born to be King, but the King of Kings born as a man to emancipate life from the clutches of evil and death.
At a very basic level, you obtain a product (or products), ship it to Amazon Fulfillment Centers, and wait for it to be sold.
Though the process for the consumer is simple -- fax in your order, wait for your drugs in the mail -- the business of fulfillment is more convoluted: once the scrip arrives at the Point Douglas Pharmacy in Winnipeg, it is verified and then sent to a Canadian doctor to be rewritten, then filled and sent directly to the customer.
But fulfillment of that promise will have to wait for another day, now that the mission has missed a rare seasonal weather window for launch.
VLADIMIR: Wait for Godot.
