Sentences with phrase «chose day laborers»

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Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.