Answer: A
Explanation:
"Reality is weirdly normal." It's "normal" in odd ways, by strange means, in surprising senses.
At the risk of vivisecting poetry, and maybe of stating the obvious, I'll point out that the maxims mean different things by "normal". In the first two, what's "normal" or "usual" is the universe taken on its own terms — the cosmos as it sees itself, or as an ideally calibrated demon would see it. In the third maxim, what's "normal" is the universe humanity perceives — though this still doesn't identify normality with what's believed or expected. Actually, it will take some philosophical work to articulate just what Egan's "normality" should amount to. I'll start with Copernicanism and reductionism, and then I'll revisit that question.
The main effect produced by the repeated word pattern in the first two stanzas of the poem "Your Laughter" is <u>By drawing a comparison through repetition of word patterns, the speaker subtly suggests that he can live without many common things, but would cease to live if he were denied his lover's laughter. </u>
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