• Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    As a foreigner, what does this metaphor mean? It sounds to me like “And at the end of the day… is night” kind of things, but what does it replace?

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      It means there is no future in centrism. The living armadillos choose a side. Those that dither will be hit by cars. On United States roads, yellow lines signify lane divisions between cars traveling in opposite directions.

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        I also read this as the yellow lines being artificial constraints we’re placing on ourselves; and in this country the road painter was drunk the day he marked them down

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      Apparently it’s a book title of the same name. “A book of political subversion”

      There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos Book by Jim Hightower