He had no money or influence here. The clothes on his back were ragged, his moccasins were worn, and he was skeletally thin from lack of food and walking. But he would sail on a ship bound for England even if he had to scrub the decks to pay his way. He was Reynaud St. Aubyn, the Viscount of Hope, and by God or the devil, he was going home. Elizabeth Hoyt
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There was a time when the world was not what it is today. (Gutenberg era). It was very different from what we see today. The people in the world took things literally and literally meant literally.

Things were literally dead and dead meant dead. Even though this was all true in the context of the day, it was also true that in some cases, things were alive and alive (or at least alive-like) and meaning alive in a literal sense. A being could be literally alive, but it could also be literally dead, which is to say that it would have been literally dead if it had been literally alive.

In other words, no one knew how to tell the difference between a literal and a figurative way of talking about things. But then along came a time when being literally alive or being literally dead began to mean something else entirely, namely that you could have literally died by being literally alive or lived by being literally dead. At this point, everything became clear.

Source: To Desire A Devil

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