A crucible is a vessel for heating metals. So The Crucible is the place where ideas are tossed and turned around.
A crucible is a vessel for heating metals. So The Crucible is the place where ideas are tossed and turned around.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. -- Ray Bradbury's "Coda"
To produce a homogeneous and unified mass? Is this wishful thinking?So The Crucible is the place where ideas are tossed and turned around
I think the idea is that each individual's quality ideas will clump together and be used as a foundation for new ideas, while the old crummy ideas that don't withstand the scrutiny of the crucible will be tossed out.
Every dialect is a language, but not every language is a dialect. - Einar Haugen
Ah ok. Bit of a stretch but if this is the general association, let's go for it.
I really thought I'd locked this. Sorry, folks. Let me find my keys...
...there we go.