Only to have it taste like paint smells
as when, as a little girl, she had licked a painting of cake,
thinking it would taste like frosting, only to have it taste like paint smells .
What does the above mean ?
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When she was very young (under the age of 3), and unable to tell the difference between images and the real thing, she licked a painting of a cake, thinking it would taste like frosting on a real cake. But, of course, it tasted like paint, specifically, it tasted like what paint smells like.
- When she was very young (under the age of 3), and unable to tell the difference between images and the real thing, she licked a painting of a cake, thinking it would taste like frosting on a real cake.
- But, of course, it tasted like paint, specifically, it tasted like what paint smells like.
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When she was very young (under the age of 3), and unable to tell the difference between images and the real thing, she licked a painting of a cake, thinking it would taste like frosting on a real cake. But, of course, it tasted like paint, specifically, it tasted like what paint smells like.
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