Meaning of snowfort | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The snowball fight⟳, ‘a pretty satire on war and military glory’, should, [Nathaniel] Hawthorne feels, end⟳ in the building of a monument of snow⟳ of which future observers will ask⟳, ‘How came it here?’ For Hawthorne, it might jocularly be said, the snowforts of children are the American equivalent of European ruins.”

“Alain Noël (1993) would probably find⟳ even this open-ended formula much too mechanical. In his excellent critique of various regulation theories he says that the historical record⟳ teaches us that: / regulation is more akin to the snowforts children build⟳ in winter. The participants erect a wall, add⟳ a motif – inspired by the neighbor’s snowfort – open⟳ a loophole, break⟳ a side-wall in an unexpected battle, in short, they continuously build⟳ and renovate, without ever stopping, until the whole project is finally destroyed by a war, a celebration, or a heavy rainfall. An ongoing project, the snowfort is never finished until it is lost or abandoned. What matters for the participants is less the outcome than the process⟳, less the snowfort itself that the always fragile agreement of all around a common vision, which organizes the games for a period.”

“The good memories he had were gone, / Like⟳ playing catch⟳ with Dad on the lawn. / He forgot about happiness, he didn’t remember⟳ / About the snowforts and toys in December.”

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