Connor, a digital designer, explained the difference between makeup artists and special effects artists. “Imagine monsters on a giant movie screen. Special effects artists make them look horrible. The makeup artists probably use colorful liquids, rubber, and even pieces of metal. The effects are over the top!”

What do the prepositional phrases in this paragraph have in common?

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?