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briandmyers  ·  3464 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 7th Bi-Monthly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately

    If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

- Spider Robinson, "Mindkiller"





lil  ·  3464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hi Brian - I've been turning this around in my head for a while and don't -- quite -- get -- it. Irony? It must be about irony.

briandmyers  ·  3464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, exactly.

The speaker follows this up with a litany of God's ironies (like that fact that humans crave refined sugar, very powerfully, in spite of the fact that it's horribly bad for us; that kind of thing).