Painterly wooden megaphone spilling tangled gold and teal ribbons on a pale surface.

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Small Gods  ·  1992

Terry Pratchett

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.

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Our interpretation.

This humorously captures the disconnect between a speaker's intended depth and their audience's actual comprehension. What felt like profound philosophy to the speaker landed as meaningless noise to everyone else, poking fun at how easily communication breaks down between different levels of understanding or attention.

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