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echo: english_tutor
to: ANTON SHEPELEV
from: ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
date: 2020-04-16 22:02:00
subject: A pigeon simile

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Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 10.04.2020 12:37

 AS> The great Ambrose Bierce quotes the following in his definition
 AS> of conscience:
 AS> "Woes that defy the world's religions --
 AS> The Spirit's brooding ills --
 AS> We scatter, like a flock of pigeons,
 AS>     With pills."
 AS> I don't understand the comparison: how does one employ pills in
 AS> scattering a flock of pigeons? Or is a handfull of small
 AS> pebbles?

Pills also are balls for golf, billiards. You can scare away a flock of
pigeons with it.

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2020 
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