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Title text:

My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/

explainxkcd for #3209

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[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, I wasn't cultured enough to get the reference to William Carlos Williams. Frost, yes, of course.

Looking up the poem, I have certainly heard it before.

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

and which you were probably saving for breakfast

Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yes! That's familiar.

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