A blue teacup floating above its saucer, tethered by red string to a small iron weight.

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Small Gods  ·  1992

Terry Pratchett

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The joke treats gravity as though it were an ingrained personal habit. Describing it as hard to shake off gives a familiar force the language of behaviour and self-improvement. The understatement makes escaping it sound like a stubborn everyday problem.

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