Grab your current read (or a book on your shelf that you've read or been wanting to read). Let the book fall open to a random page. Share two (or a few) teaser sentences from that page. Don't forget to share the title and author of the book in case someone is teased into reading. Please avoid spoilers!
I've posted my teaser below. Post yours in the comment section if you'd like to share as well!
The opacity of everyday metaphors is also apparent in inadvertently tasteless expressions (such as the radio psychotherapist who said, "For some patients, cancer can be a growth experience"), ambiguous headlines (CHEF THROWS HIS HEART INTO HELPING FEED NEEDY), Goldwynisms ("An oral agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on"), and entry into the club called AWFUL--Americans Who Figuratively Use "Literally." The character member was Rabbi Baruch Korff, a defender of Richard Nixon during his Watergate ordeal, who at one point protested, "The American press has literally emasculated President Nixon."from The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
