4247.
Was the Rooster being deliberately obtuse, or did he simply not understand what
Otis had said. I have to admit that I think the Rooster did not comprehend the
idea the wolf was trying to express, and the reason is because birds apparently
do not understand metaphors.
4248.
A bird can understand a metaphor when expressed in visual terms, as in a
painting or a dramatic performance, but they draw a blank when the same kinds
of ideas are expressed in words. I have heard it said that their natural
language does not include the word, “like.”
4249.
Birds will often deny that their language lacks the word “like,” but in the
same breath they will often go on to condemn the use of that word by saying
such things as: nothing is ever like something else, everything is unique in
its own right.
4250.
Bread is only like bread, and rain is only like rain, and to say that the rain
is like bread is to abuse a person’s thought process under the guise or the
excuse of poor poetry.
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