The Stalking Horse is a hollow shell. But it will not always be so. Soon, it will soon contain stories. The first tale, The Fey-Hounds, is being workshopped
and should appear anon.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Where's the content?
The Stalking Horse is a hollow shell. But it will not always be so. Soon, it will soon contain stories. The first tale, The Fey-Hounds, is being workshopped
and should appear anon.
A stalking horse?
Stalking Horse, n.
1. a screen traditionally made in the shape of a horse behind which a hunter can stay concealed when stalking prey.
2. a false pretext concealing someone’s real intentions.
3. a political candidate who runs only in order to provoke the election and thus allow a stronger candidate to come forward.
Origin:
Early 16th Century: A stalking-horse was literally a horse trained to allow a hunter to conceal himself behind it to get within range of the game; figurative sense of "person who participates in a proceeding to disguise its real purpose."
Oxford English Dictionary:
Religion: "Abusing the pretence of the Gospell as a stalking horse to levell at others by..." (1579)
Politics: There are leaders who "serve themselves of that idolatrous Romish religion, as of a Maske and stalking horse, therewith to cover the unsatiable ambition...of usurping the kingdoms of other Princes" (1594)
Literature: "He uses his folly like a stalking-horse" (Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1600)
Personal: "You...were made his engine, and his stauking horse, to undo my sister" (1612)
2. a false pretext concealing someone’s real intentions.
3. a political candidate who runs only in order to provoke the election and thus allow a stronger candidate to come forward.
Origin:
Early 16th Century: A stalking-horse was literally a horse trained to allow a hunter to conceal himself behind it to get within range of the game; figurative sense of "person who participates in a proceeding to disguise its real purpose."
Oxford English Dictionary:
Religion: "Abusing the pretence of the Gospell as a stalking horse to levell at others by..." (1579)
Politics: There are leaders who "serve themselves of that idolatrous Romish religion, as of a Maske and stalking horse, therewith to cover the unsatiable ambition...of usurping the kingdoms of other Princes" (1594)
Literature: "He uses his folly like a stalking-horse" (Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1600)
Personal: "You...were made his engine, and his stauking horse, to undo my sister" (1612)
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