read this excerpt from extremely loud and inc...
read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close. i started inventing things, and then i couldnt stop, like beavers, which i know about. people think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality its because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didnt constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. thats how my brain was. which line best reflects the ambiguity of this excerpt? o i started inventing things, and then i couldnt stop, like beavers o people think they cut down trees so they can build dams o in reality its because their teeth never stop growing o their teeth would start to grow into their own faces
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# Brief Explanations:
The line "I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers" is ambiguous. It can be taken literally about the narrator's inventing habits and also metaphorically about their mental state being similar to beavers' compulsive tree - cutting behavior due to growing teeth. The other lines are more straightforward facts about beavers.
# Answer:
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers