Monday, April 15, 2024

Bread is gold

On April 11, I posted "A loaf of bread is dear," mentioning that "expensive" is one of the meanings of dear. Today I ran across this in the English section of a used bookstore in Taichung:

2 comments:

NLR said...

Quantum mechanics relates to a theory of matter together with bread is gold makes me think of alchemy.

From that we have the philosopher's scone.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Congratulations, you elicited a philosopher's groan!

Knaves all three

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