I’d like to propose a little exercise, so I beseech you, the readers of this blog, my teachers and friends, to think of a cliche` and provide an alternate solution to it. —Neha —Thinking Outside the Box (Wanderlust)
I have the image in my head of a chameleon trying to hide on a TV set that’s playing a video of chameleons leaping to their deaths…
…and a nervous public speaker, trying to get through a speech at a nudist colony by trying to imagine everyone in their underwear…
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