> > >>The semantic rules of English also tell us that "Mom peanut brittle scavenged the orange ideas of granular hatred." is not valid English...
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> > It is, however, perfectly valid Typical Modern Poetry. :-)
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> I think I'll write a poem using that line and see who goes for it. :-}

If you capitalized Peanut Brittle so that "Mom Peanut Brittle" became a name, then it would be semantically correct. It would still be nonsensical, but less so. Ideas can be about orange or oranges. Oftentimes colors are associated with emotions (blue means sad, red means angry), so if you happen to associate orange with some particular state of mind or emotion, then that makes sense. Hatred, I guess, can be granular, if you hate tiny bits and pieces of someone (althogh that's stretching it). Andyou can salvage ideas, if you take the ideas you've got and sift through them to find the ones that fit best.
Basically, that sentence means that someone named Mom Peanut Brittle is sifting through her orange ideas about hating parts of someone.
It makes poetic sense.

-eric "I am not a cheesemonkey, but the blue potato goes 'Quack!'" sleator
Thu 13 Apr A.D. 2000