“He seems in a confounded hurry,” said Doctor Kemp, “but he doesn’t seem to be getting on. If his pockets were full of lead, he couldn’t run heavier.” (Ellison, 78)
The former quotation caught my attention for two reasons. first, i really liked how Ellison applies dramatic irony, since Doctor Kemp doesn't know that his theory of why Marvel is acting such way is actually very close to what is going on. Marvel’s pockets are in fact full of "lead";money. the usage of metonymy also interested me while i read the sentence. "Lead" is used to represent money. It's not that someone would actually shove pieces of lead sticks in their pockets. This was a fun sentence to read where Ellison provides his readers a lot to think of.
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