Just to assure everyone that the torch will be passed to the younger generation, behold the following. My seven year-old has been working on analogies in her schooling, and she recently took the opportunity to affirm the wonder of the world of objects.
She reads:
“Happy is to sad as ____ is to ____.”
She thinks. Then writes:
“Happy is to sad as pig is to washing machine.”
Perhaps it’s not surprising, though: things are far more signal than noise to children, for whom the wonder of worldly repleteness has not yet been lost to the ennui of social practice.
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Jordan Magnuson
Nice.