Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
anchor in reality
English answer:
connection to reality/ordinary life
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BrigitteHilgner
Oct 28, 2005 07:54
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English term
anchor in reality
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I found this term in the following passage:
"He had found a bland apartment that could have been in any city in America. Bland didn't bother him. Working to the jazz beat and the hoodoo hum of New Orleans, especially as a homicide dick, he claimed that he ended every day in local-color overload. The ordinary apartment was his anchor in reality."
"He had found a bland apartment that could have been in any city in America. Bland didn't bother him. Working to the jazz beat and the hoodoo hum of New Orleans, especially as a homicide dick, he claimed that he ended every day in local-color overload. The ordinary apartment was his anchor in reality."
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BrigitteHilgner
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connection to reality/ordinary life
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Note added at 5 hrs 27 mins (2005-10-28 13:21:39 GMT)
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He felt that he got too much of the "jazz beat and hoodoo hum" of the city, that the special atmosphere of N.O. was getting on his nerves, too loud, too colourful, too "unreal". His own appartment is different (refreshingly?) bland and therefore to him more real than life outside his appartment. I guess this person is not only from a different town/village, he comes from a completely different environment and feels overwhelmed by N.O.
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Note added at 5 hrs 27 mins (2005-10-28 13:21:39 GMT)
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He felt that he got too much of the "jazz beat and hoodoo hum" of the city, that the special atmosphere of N.O. was getting on his nerves, too loud, too colourful, too "unreal". His own appartment is different (refreshingly?) bland and therefore to him more real than life outside his appartment. I guess this person is not only from a different town/village, he comes from a completely different environment and feels overwhelmed by N.O.
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Michael Barnett
: Yes, and "anchor" alludes to a quiet harbour away from the turmoil of N.O.
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Thank you! Sadly, in connection with N.O., the quiet harbour has got an additional, very special meaning. :-)
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Tania Marques-Cardoso
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Will Matter
: with MB. Too much daily excitement/stress/adventure as a policeman (to the point of possible psychic "overload") so when he returns home each day to his plain & ordinary apartment it makes him feel natural, normal, secure & OK.
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Comment: "Thanks a lot, Brigitte and all other answerers and commenters."
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Calm, serene, quiet, relaxed
The detective finds the "jazz beat and the hoodoo hum of New Orleans" a bit much for his personal taste. It would not be part of his own personal lifestyle. When he goes back to his apartment that is plain, and which does not reflect New Orleans, the detective is in his own element...or in his version of "reality."
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Will Matter
: Daily life in N. O., with its' "hoodoo hum" is too exciting/too stimulating so when he goes back to his plain & ordinary apartment at the end of the day it makes him feel stable, normal & sane. "Homicide dick" = "homicide policeman", it's slang English.
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Refugio
: That is one interpretation. Another would be that its blandness, which would not ordinarily have appealed to him, worked as an antidote to the hyperexcitement of N.O.
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Made him feel stable in the situation
made him feel he was tied to, related, stable in the reality that was being created around him.
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