Poetic Hyperbole
One of my favorite books is Ecclesiastes. I was reading it the other day, and I came upon a section that made me laugh out loud. “Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things–while I was still searching but not finding — I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.” – Ecclesiastes 7:27-28 I wasn’t laughing out loud because I thought he was being sexist, or even because it came out of nowhere. I was laughing because it was...
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