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Sitting on a cornflake

In its original surrealistic context this line conjures the ...
hot house-broken station
  05/26/22


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Date: May 26th, 2022 4:54 PM
Author: hot house-broken station

In its original surrealistic context this line conjures the image of a boulder-sized cornflake that the caterpillar from Alice might be perched atop.

But I like to imagine an ordinary corn flake on a chair, perhaps in a hotel’s continental breakfast dining room, that a man sits on and the broken specks stick to his pants.

The incongruity between the author’s intended imagery and my own banal interpretation amuses me. It highlights the playful creativity, the nested interplay of expectation and percept, in imagination. Humor lies in the unexpected.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5117621&forum_id=2#44579241)