Oct 08 2008
Homeric Logic, pt1
Some Homer Simpson Logic:
Though sometimes misjudged as a complete moron, Homer is actually a deft manipulator of the oxymoron: “Oh Bart, don’t worry, people die all the time. In fact, you could wake up dead tomorrow.” And our favorite figure of ridicule is actually quite handy with figures of speech. To explain human behavior, for instance, he relies on personification:
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it’s time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!
Chiasmus guides Homer to new levels of self-understanding:
All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me–so let’s just do this, and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.
And here, in just five words, he manages to combine apostrophe and tricolon in a heartfelt encomium: “Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.”
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