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Source: A Place of Both Solitude and Belonging: In Praise of the Park Bench

uietly democratic, allowing all three their resting place, but also suggesting that their resting place can, and inevitably will, be disturbed. Summary
The bench is a symbol of publicness and civic life, a place to belong without needing to consume. It can address the paradox between being deliberately isolated in a crowd while also being present in the public arena. A bench is a place for pleasant idling, the enjoyable whiling away of a few minutes.

Fact

👥 The bench can address a paradox between being alone yet present in public spaces.

🪑 The public bench became a publicly provided symbol of civic life and the civilized city in the 19th century.

📸 The urban bench is one of the most unerringly popular subjects for photographers.

💤 The nighttime bench is a quietly democratic place for all, but also a place where disturbance is inevitable.

Source: How to use repetition

Summary
Expressions such as “It is what it is” and “What will be will be” are examples of tautologies, forcing us to look beyond the literal for meaning. There are different kinds of tautologies, each with its own nuance. Hearers infer inevitability and acceptance, obligation, or hope and grit.

Facts

💬 Tautologies are expressions that state the obvious in an obvious way.

🦢 Clause tautologies share a grammatical form in which the subject-predicate pair is repeated within the subject or within the predicate in a repeated way, where hearers infer inevitability and acceptance or hope and grit.

👥 Noun tautologies assert that something, e. g., food, is itself, and they can be used with if in conditional sentences to express either the cancellation or emphasis of difference.

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