For @daily.prompt/8-may-2025-mariannewests-freewrite-writing-prompt-day-2730-eject-her
Eject her.
Hm. Reject and eject are similar in sound, look, and meaning.
Does ject have to do with tra-ject-ory...probably
Huh. Reject is the less physical movement, I think. Eject is in between. You can be metaphorically ejected as in ejected from a game...is it still a metaphor there? Or literally ejected from, you know, your space ship or whatever. Press the eject button, and the thing pops out... though nowadays you click the eject icon, and some software thing happens and then you can safely physically unplug the usb. Do bad things really happen if you don't? I almost never do, because when I do, I'm not always sure anything happens. And sometimes I worry that a thing I don't want to happen will happen if I eject "her" my usb stick.
Eject from a game.
And, of course, I think trajectory...well no. The first thing I think of is a physical trajectory, but we also talk about the trajectory of a career. Man, isn't it interesting how we translate so many abstract ideas into the physical perception of something? We use graphs to show things like, like, like up means the stock's value is rising. Up relative to what's on the left. Ha.