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<blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 3432274" data-attributes="member: 1154">If you want to be really technical, &quot;He cooks and consumes his flesh,&quot; means that one is cooking and consuming one's own flesh. Pronouns apply to the last appropriate proper noun, meaning that the son cooked and ate the son's flesh. Or so I've heard, at least.Of course, I'm just being pedantic, because the intended meaning is clear.I will call shenanigans on the &quot;he has done nothing the villagers don't do every day&quot; line, though. It explicitly says that &quot;he does a deed of great evil&quot; and that the villagers are &quot;pious and good.&quot; Therefore, the pious and good villagers commit deeds of great evil on a daily basis.Also, there's the clear implication (though it could be an intentional red herring) that the villagers in fact commit filicide on a daily basis, which is both improbable and a deed of great evil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asmor, post: 3432274, member: 1154"] If you want to be really technical, "He cooks and consumes his flesh," means that one is cooking and consuming one's own flesh. Pronouns apply to the last appropriate proper noun, meaning that the son cooked and ate the son's flesh. Or so I've heard, at least. Of course, I'm just being pedantic, because the intended meaning is clear. I will call shenanigans on the "he has done nothing the villagers don't do every day" line, though. It explicitly says that "he does a deed of great evil" and that the villagers are "pious and good." Therefore, the pious and good villagers commit deeds of great evil on a daily basis. Also, there's the clear implication (though it could be an intentional red herring) that the villagers in fact commit filicide on a daily basis, which is both improbable and a deed of great evil. [/QUOTE]

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