fastens
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Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. "Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary - she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.
The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that our vital attention fastens more and more on internal things.
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
A worker fastens a sign at the entrance to the Mount Pleasant dog park in Regina, Saskatchewan on Oct. 30, 2020.
The girl doesn’t just “make” her magnificent thing — she “tinkers and hammers and measures,” she “smoothes and wrenches and fiddles,” she “twists and tweaks and fastens.”