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Guilt is just a bag of fuckin' bricks. All ya gotta do is set it down.
— John Milton · The Devil's Advocate
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Guilt gets pictured as a heavy sack of bricks that you carry around by choice, and the speaker's blunt claim is that you can simply put it down. It's a tough-talking metaphor that treats relief as a matter of letting go, not working through anything.
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