The word he quotes here is supposed to be the sound of Finnegan falling off his ladder, fatally. It is composed of onomatopoeias for thunder in various languages. It is actually my favorite part of the book, and the only part I have memorized other than the opening sentence.Yes, I am a bit of a nerd.
I dunno. This one doesn’t work for me. The logic’s unsound. If something’s a crime, doing it for a living doesn’t make it okay. If we replace ‘reporter’ and ‘reporting’ with ‘assassin’ and ‘assassinating’, it immediately loses its persuasive edge.That’s not to say I agree with the judge here; I merely do not think this a good critique of a major injustice.
In order to get the girl’s number, the physically fit man puffs out his gut in order to look like a “Lucky Cow Man”. The ad’s saying that fat men are appealing to women, so eat at Lucky Cow to get fat.
And yet, both of them engage in ideology. As it turns out, it isn’t raining. It is merely a cartoon of rain. I stick my hand to the “rain” and all I feel is my screen. And yet, the caveman who feels rain would think me as insane as the official ideologue.
Honestly, if you’re willing to D.B. Cooper it, this airline’s not too bad.