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Mathematician, university educator, writer, musician, and occasional photographer. Often: prickly. Sometimes: adorable. Rarely: extraverted.
Mathematician, university educator, writer, musician, and occasional photographer. Often: prickly. Sometimes: adorable. Rarely: extraverted.
![One subject even imagined dinosaurs lumber-
ing around London:
Original Text: As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had
but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be
wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, wad-
dling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
Subject: [Pause.] [Laughs.] So it’s like, um, [Pause.] the mud was
all in the streets, and we were, no . . . [Pause.] so everything’s been
like kind of washed around and we might find Megalosaurus
bones but he’s says they’re waddling, um, all up the hill.
The subject cannot make the leap to figurative language. She first guesses
that the dinosaur is just “bones” and then is stuck stating that the bones
are “waddling, um, all up the hill” because she can see that Dickens has the
dinosaur moving. Because she cannot logically tie the ideas together, she
just leaves her interpretation as is and goes on to the next sentence. Like](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreiabrcqy2gfnmtrao45o26tlqgezfvq4z2ou4tubjlu4fcw5s35dei)
