You know how it goes: You’re reading a book, and it says something, and a couple of pages later it says the exact opposite, so you can’t trust anything it says at all.
For example, today I was reading Simms Taback’s Great Big Book of Spacey, Snakey, Buggy Riddles.
And one riddle is:
And a couple pages later, another riddle is:
Both of these things cannot be true.
Wake up, sheeple! This is how they break down the minds of your children: By presenting riddles that compel your child to hold two contrary ideas in mind at once and/or to not recognize or object when two opposing assertions appear and are presented as TRUE!
Or maybe I take things too seriously. Or lack a sense of humor.