I’m a fan of headfakes where a line seems philosophical or metaphorical but turns out to be literal. Like I’m working on a post tentatively titled Reinventing the Wheel that’s literally about that. Actual wheels.
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“Conversations falling off a cliff” that’s actually a post about base jumping with a buddy?
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I recently ran into a romance novel with a kinky billionaire love interest that was called “golden handcuffs”, which based on the cover promised to be literal
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Another example: the movie called "The Current War". Literally about electric current.
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