| "Actually," the troll
says. "It could be a man after all. A man crawls on all fours
in the morning -- metaphorically speaking, that is, where 'morning' is
meant as the early part of a man's life, when he is but an infant and he
crawls on his hands and knees. Then afternoon would be taken as the
middle of his life, when a man walks on two legs. Evening would be
when the man is old and requires a cane, and again, we must resort to metaphors
to understand that the cane is to be regarded as a third leg -- you are
getting this, aren't you?"
"I understood you up until the word 'metaphorically,'" you reply. "But," you add, "wouldn't it make better sense for it to be a pony?" |