Also, most Catholics do not experience mass as an intellectually or emotionally intensive experience. It's mostly chanting the right things at the right time, a few rote, decontextualized readings, and a typically boring, borderline incoherent homily.
To that end, Metaphor is a game of contrasts. Often, it's a delightful subversion (or even outright rejection) of its own genre, but it rarely sustains that feeling; choosing, instead, to deploy rote narrative tropes and familiar character archetypes, as if it fears to tread too far from its roots.
Freies Mandat diesdas. Und außerdem wissen die sehr genau, wo die rote Linie zur echten Lüge ist. Meist verdrehen die die Wahrheit ja nur gerade so weit, dass sie die Unwahrheit nicht selbst aussprechen müssen, sondern das den Köpfen ihrer Zuhörer überlassen.
That makes an exception, like this quiet moment between Yankees veteran Giancarlo Stanton and budding Royals star Bobby Witt Jr., meaningful in a way that rote “good game” handshakes in football or basketball are not. x.com/jomboymedia/...
