Structure becomes rigidity, discipline becomes narrowness, order becomes a straitjacket, and too much patterning kills spontaneity. On another level, an individual's conformity to the consensus of any particular time in history comes to limit, define, and ultimately to strangle that person's creative potential. And this creative potential is the only hope for the future progress of culture. Every time we do what is untrue to our nature, acting not from a real necessity but rather to fulfill what others may expect of us, we commit a crime against ourselves that is peculiarly Saturnine. We move a bit more toward death, more of our potential becomes actual, and what is actual does not express what we are.
Robert Hand
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| SYLLABICATION: | un·der·ground |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth: underground caverns; underground missile sites. 2a. Hidden or concealed; clandestine: underground resistance to the tyrant. b. Of or relating to an organization involved in secret or illegal activity: underground trade in weapons. 3. Of or relating to an avant-garde movement or its films, publications, and art, usually privately produced and of special appeal and often concerned with social or artistic experiment. | | NOUN: | 1. A clandestine, often nationalist, organization fostering or planning hostile activities against, or the overthrow of, a government in power, such as an occupying military government: “an underground of dissident intellectuals” (Kenneth L. Woodward). 2. Chiefly British A subway system. 3. An avant-garde movement or publication. | | ADVERB: | 1. Below the surface of the earth. 2. In secret; stealthily. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: un·der·ground·ed, un·der·ground·ing, un·der·grounds
To situate under the ground: workers undergrounding telephone lines.
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