A Measure of Description

A Measure of Time had a very interesting beginning paragraph that really caught my attention and had me thinking. You can make anything sound beautiful and majestic. In the first paragraph, the author was talking about a cancer therapy machine and how it was "a cake of crumbly powder" and there was a dust that was "eerily glowing in the sultry dark". If you didn't know that he was talking about a stainles steele cylinder, you probably would have guessed that this was a passage taken from a fairy book or something. Words can have such an illusion on situations. Words have the power to persude a judge to either lock someone in jail for life or let them roam the earth. Words can make two people fall in love or out of it. When I was reading that paragraph I had to stop and think about how I wasn't reading a fantasy book. I was reading a book about how these two young men discovred Radium, which is a chemical element not some pixie dust.