excerpt like a promethean curse

a small chalkboard stand at work is, belatedly most times, adorned with a supposed 'inspirational' quote or idiom weekly. this blog has, at times, taken idioms and deconstructed them in purposely obtuse ways so as to have a pseudo-ironic, deprecatory posts. the stated goal, then, of each elucidation is different; the former, to inspire achievement - the latter, to inspire a sort of perfunctory chuckle or reflection on the silliness of the english language. in the end, however, both the black chalkboard and the white background result in the same foregone conclusion; nobody reads either, nobody is inspired by either, and all continue their slow march towards death.