Original artwork, not a still
Time Enough for Love · 1973
A fake fortune teller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker offers a darkly comic paradox: phony seers are harmless, but a genuine prophet is intolerable and deserves violence. Citing Cassandra, they suggest she was treated too lightly. The exaggeration mocks how unwelcome true foresight can be, and the violent phrasing reads as hyperbole.
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