This summer I am going to learn three new languages and bike 50k a day and spend every hour of sunlight on the beach and read every book ever written and become a chess grandmaster and play instruments and run and run and run
love this! the human spirit rises up in humor, often in satiric ways, throughout history. maybe this was a commoner's way of protesting, knowing it was futile, but wanting to inject something of his own, idiosyncratic & startling, into the Establishment monument. life crushes us all, but---here I am!
groceries? get em delivered. books? buy em on amazon. fuck libraries and bookstores. stop buying cds, vinyls, and dvds, it's all on the cloud! movie theaters? obsolete. subscribe to 10 different platforms instead! stay inside. be afraid of your neighbors. work til you die
Some phrases are so well-known, you don't need to say the whole thing to be understood.
E.g., you can say "birds of a feather" without saying "flock together."
-“When life hands you lemons…”
-“Great minds…”
-“When in Rome…”
Such partial phrases are called 'anapodotons.'