Most recent public comments by Ella Lee https://nowcomment.com/users/112784 https://nowcomment.com/documents/290844?scroll_to=2589783 https://nowcomment.com/documents/290844?scroll_to=2589783 It assumes that anyone who is able to travel into the Highlands must be open to learning from/about them (or wherever place it might be that one is travelling to), and that whilst there, locals can mislead those unaccustomed to their language and lifestyle by deceiving them, so much so that ones recollection of events might differ drastically to another's and so leads us to question what real truth there may be in the wilderness ? Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:26:23 +0800 https://nowcomment.com/documents/290844?scroll_to=2589507 https://nowcomment.com/documents/290844?scroll_to=2589507 I think it's really interesting that the use of the word 'cultivate' is used throughout the text to refer to multiple ideas; here the language is not cultivated in the sense that it is not made concrete in writing, in the same way that Johnson refers to the 'uncultivated landscape' which could be taken to mean temporary, finite, meaningless - the idea that where he is travelling is not worthy of being cultivated and procured, made lasting, like the language of the place, making it all in all pretty redundant. Wed, 06 Oct 2021 23:15:07 +0800