Analogies are as useful as a pair of glasses are to a blind man.
We caught a “camel spider” (actually a scorpion) wandering in our hallway today. It was the size of my palm- and it was a baby. You could see its black jaws clamping open and closed as it wriggled around frantically under the tupperware in the poison powder and Dettol. My next-door-neighbor had seen its mother last night on her balcony. It was the size of a man's thigh. While she was inside searching futilely for a pan or dish large enough to trap it, it vanished.
Archimedes the Owl: If the boy goes about saying the world is round, they'll take him for a lunatic.
Arthur: The world is round?
Merlin: Yes. Yes, that's right, and it also goes a-round.
Arthur: You mean it'll be round someday.
Merlin: No, no, no, it's round now. Man will discover this in centuries to come. And he will also find that the world is merely a tiny speck in the universe.
Arthur: Universe?
Archimedes the Owl: You're only confusing the boy. Before you're through, he'll be so mixed up, he'll... he'll be wearing his shoes on his head!
1 comment:
i assume this is after you screamed and yelled how do you sleep at night?
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