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Unread 12-27-2023, 12:10 AM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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This thread is for taking metaphorical language literally. (Sorry that this first image is so big.)


Artist: Paco Pomet

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Unread 12-27-2023, 02:58 AM
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Off one's trolley?
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Unread 12-27-2023, 08:54 AM
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Not a bad guess. Think of a line from a famous poem, though.
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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
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Wretched Ratshed Reaching?
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Julie, I have incredible penchants propensities proclivities predilections and affinities.
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Oh. I see. Or rather I didn't see more than a third of it. What Andrew said.
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Andrew's gotta be right, after that hint about a famous poem, but it also looks as though the artist has wet the bed.
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