Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Sometimes there are good reasons to be literal

Elsie glared at him. "Do you always have to be so literal?"

Homer gave her question some though, then said, "Maybe it's a coal mining thing. If you don't look at the roof literally, it might fall literally on top of your head."
Homer Hickam, Carrying Albert Home (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), p. 309

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