Oct 19, 2006 21:42
I hope I don't end up doing this every day, but we're doing figurative language (specifically irony, understatement, overstatement, paradox), in English, and I just cannot help sharing this one.
Earth
"A planet doesn't explode of itself," said drily
The Martian astronomer, gazing off into the air--
"That they were able to do it is proof that highly
Intelligent beings must have been living there."
--John Hall Wheelock
That is all.