“The herald of coming good” means a sign, messenger, or early indication that something positive is about to happen.
A herald is literally someone who announces news in advance. So this phrase frames good fortune as something already on its way—you’re just seeing the first ripple before the wave arrives.
Conceptually, it sits somewhere between:
omen (but positive, not superstitious)
harbinger (without the usual doom)
early signal (with a lyrical sheen)
A herald is literally someone who announces news in advance. So this phrase frames good fortune as something already on its way—you’re just seeing the first ripple before the wave arrives.
Conceptually, it sits somewhere between:
omen (but positive, not superstitious)
harbinger (without the usual doom)
early signal (with a lyrical sheen)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval#Palais_idéal
"I was walking very fast when my foot caught on something that sent me stumbling a few metres away, I wanted to know the cause. [Previously, in] a dream, I had built a palace, a castle or caves, I cannot express it well [...] I told no one about it for fear of being ridiculed and I felt ridiculous myself.
"Then fifteen years later, when I had almost forgotten my dream, when I wasn't thinking of it at all, my foot reminded me of it. My foot tripped on a stone that almost made me fall. I wanted to know what it was [...] It was a stone of such a strange shape that I put it in my pocket to admire it at my leisure.
"The next day, I went back to the same place. I found more stones, even more beautiful, I gathered them together on the spot and was overcome with delight [...] It's a sandstone shaped by water and hardened by the power of time. It becomes as hard as pebbles. It represents a sculpture so strange that it is impossible for man to imitate, it represents any kind of animal, any kind of caricature.
"I said to myself: since Nature is willing to do the sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture."
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"I was walking very fast when my foot caught on something that sent me stumbling a few metres away, I wanted to know the cause. [Previously, in] a dream, I had built a palace, a castle or caves, I cannot express it well [...] I told no one about it for fear of being ridiculed and I felt ridiculous myself.
"Then fifteen years later, when I had almost forgotten my dream, when I wasn't thinking of it at all, my foot reminded me of it. My foot tripped on a stone that almost made me fall. I wanted to know what it was [...] It was a stone of such a strange shape that I put it in my pocket to admire it at my leisure.
"The next day, I went back to the same place. I found more stones, even more beautiful, I gathered them together on the spot and was overcome with delight [...] It's a sandstone shaped by water and hardened by the power of time. It becomes as hard as pebbles. It represents a sculpture so strange that it is impossible for man to imitate, it represents any kind of animal, any kind of caricature.
"I said to myself: since Nature is willing to do the sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture."
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