“Okay, okay. I get it. Another reverse metaphor,” thought Arlo as he closed his copy of Still Life With Woodpecker.
“Compare something simple and common to something of almost indescribable beauty and complexity in a way that requires a dictionary to unpack. Got it. Don’t you have another trick pony?”
[Editor’s Note: The lack of a comma in the above question is intentional. Arlo had been under the impression that the expression “one trick pony” meant that the subject of the insult couldn’t afford a second “trick pony.” It would be many years before Arlo was made aware of his lifelong misunderstanding via an extremely awkward interaction with an ophthalmologist.]
Taking a deep breath, Arlo placed the book on the table next to him. He wiped an unexpected tear from his cheek and took another deep breath, letting it out as a sigh.
“It is a pretty good trick though.” he thought to himself.
Arlo glanced from the book to the window and the giant maple that stood outside. Beyond the tree was a busy road with vehicles slowly passing by like a news chyron. Above the traffic was a billboard that read:
CancelChain v1.4.0 has been released. This version updates application initialization to use flask’s built-in environment variable loading for non-cancelchain settings (e.g. SECRET_KEY). The quick start and documentation have been updated with the changes.
Arlo glanced from the billboard back to the tree. Without warning or prompting, a voice in his head cut through the normal inner monologue:
“The tree was a syzygy of the earth and the sky, a confluence of the temporal and the eternal.”
“Wait,” he stopped himself. “I don’t know what ‘syzygy’ means…”
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