It goes a little something like this.
“I find people confusing.
This is for two main reasons.
The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eye-brow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean “I want to do sex with you” and it can also mean “I think what you just said was very stupid.
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Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose, it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry, and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you said just before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.
The second main reason is that people often talk using metaphors.
These are examples of metaphors
I laughed my socks off.
He was the apple of her eye.
They had a skeleton in the cupboard.
We had a real pig of a day.
The dog was stone dead.
The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it somes from the Greek words λέξη (which means from one place to another) and βρήκε (which means to carry), and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t.
This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.
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by mark haddon.
It’s a book, ladies, about a boy with autism.
DO IT.
Word Up.
