Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
14. the rush of water thus produced [from releasing water to send a boat down a shallow stream].
Producing a “flash”
produces a rush that produces what? Here I begin to think of readers
encountering the flash; it hits readers but doesn’t drown them, just carries
them to a different place.
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