vifetoile
Queen of Filks
Since: Jan, 2001
Queen of Filks
Oct 4th 2010 at 12:19:34 AM
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Cut this line:
- In Inherit The Wind, attorney Henry Drummond tells an All That Glitters warning about a rocking horse he wanted when he was a child. It was far too expensive for his family to get for him, but his father scrimped and saved and managed to purchase the rocking horse for Drummond as a Christmas present. And the first time Drummond got on it to ride, it fell apart from dry rot.
It's a "Shaggy Dog" Story, not quite this example.
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rjung
Since: Jan, 2015
Oct 4th 2010 at 8:09:02 AM
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Seems to me like it's a "Shaggy Dog" Story about Wanting Is Better Than Having, though — Drummond wanted the rocking horse so much that his father worked like crazy to get it for him, but the reality (the dry rot) was completely anticlimactic.
"After all, desires and expectations are infinitely boundless, whereas the reality is limited by various flaws and limitations — which were overlooked during the daydreaming in expectation."
All true - but it gets worse if you decide not to overlook the flaws and limitations at the daydreaming stage. The both desire and reality suck.