In other words, it’s not that we claim to have glimpsed “a unicorn in the garden” – we have a whole population of them living in my lab! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_in_the_Garden] And lest you accuse me further of fraud, I do not literally mean that we have unicorns in the lab. Rather, I am making a literary allusion. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion
Yeah, that was a lovely move on the part of the writer. :-) The undertone of "ok, I'm going to treat you like a retarded duckling, because that what your responses inform me you are..." is wonderful.
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Date: 2008-07-08 08:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, that was a lovely move on the part of the writer. :-) The undertone of "ok, I'm going to treat you like a retarded duckling, because that what your responses inform me you are..." is wonderful.