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by IncreasePosts 129 days ago
A sloppy mixed metaphor?
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I'm learning to like 'em more, along with every other human idiosyncracy. Besides, it makes a kind of sense, the idea of some resonance occuring in one's gusset. Timber timbre. Flangent thrumming.
Tuning fork in loins just makes me think of that chess cheating scandal with a vibrating butt plug.
It just makes me think of that time I saw someone recovering from eye surgery and I had a visceral reaction.
Just like in Asimov's "Monkey's Finger".
I thought it was more creative than sloppy. Don't forget that many ordinary phrases were once jarring mixed imagery. To "wear your heart on your sleeve" was coined by Shakespeare; we still use it because it "stuck" due to its unorthodox phrasing.

If you like your prose to be anodyne, then maybe you like what AI produces.