[It's a perfectly normal idiom, but it also reminds him of a fleeting meme... And if there's anything Russell does not want to focus on, it's the image of himself as an unhatched skeleton. Or one that's hatching. He clings to the pedantic argument, if only for the sake of something else to talk about.]
No, I don't care if a skeleton is moving or not, it's a skeleton, that's not living. That's as dead as it gets. Even if there's a... a spirit in it.
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[It's a perfectly normal idiom, but it also reminds him of a fleeting meme... And if there's anything Russell does not want to focus on, it's the image of himself as an unhatched skeleton. Or one that's hatching. He clings to the pedantic argument, if only for the sake of something else to talk about.]
No, I don't care if a skeleton is moving or not, it's a skeleton, that's not living. That's as dead as it gets. Even if there's a... a spirit in it.