Fish and Caves

António Pedro Marques · 23 Dec 2010, 16:22 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:22:06 +0000
Subject: (urth) Fish and Caves
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Lee Berman wrote (22-12-2010 20:38):

> Yeah, sometimes what seems interesting in your own head comes out as a
> bit hackeneyed and boring when translated to words. For me, anyway.

Sometimes we can't even spell it out and sometimes even if we do spell it
out thoroughly nobody gets it. For instance, my beloved and I got an 
extractor hood for our kitchen that is, plainly speaking, a black upright 
parallelepipede, nothing more, nothing less. However, we don't seem to be 
able to eplxian that to anyone. When people who haven't yet seen it ask how 
it is, she says it's... a black upright parallelepipede, a black cube, a 
black box - you name it - and everyone gives a puzzled look, says uhhhm, and 
clearly thinks we didn't understand the question and are describing 
something else.

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