Reposted by Andrew Schreck
This is the thing I keep saying about the four D.C.s.
1. Cynical: the shorthand for dirty politics, see also “Beltway”
2. Hopeful/Poignant: Sorkin’s D.C., sometimes Capra’s
3. Postcard: The source of much of the nation’s iconography (memorials, White House, Mall)
4. City where people live/work
![Screenshot of text:
'Teach me still more to wonder, more to know:
'Seed-time and Harvest let me see again;
'[Highlighted word] Wander
the leaf-strewn wood, frozen plain:
'Let the first Flower, corn-waving Field, Plain, Tree,
'Here round my home, still lift my soul to THEE;
'And let me ever, midst thy bounties, raise
'An humble note of thankfulness and praise!'—
APRIL 22, 1798.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreiezmrez347gwvqz3nfhqhsmslngwtnmnlnktdhuhwtgzslnlzt7pi)
![Screenshot of Oxford English Dictionary entry
c1450 (?c1408)
To walke and romen vp and doun, In the forest.
J. Lydgate, Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 3006
[Composed ?c1408]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreifjyplxerhqpna5lfwzuwtlx63cdfnkidyaty3wf644uz3siv4tli)
