[Ads-l] _bury your soul_ (eggcorn?)

[Andy Bach]

In an article in our local paper about comics doing dramatic monologues
about some event in their lives and then doing a standup routine about that.

     He also thinks of the event as an interesting twist on the idea of
"comedy as therapy."  It's an exercise in making one's self vulnerable.
     "You do that in a story where you bury your soul," Purcell said. "Then
... you go tell a joke about it.

Unclear if the reporter transcribed it wrong or if that's really what
Purcell said.

There are a surprising number of songs with that title, but the meaning
seems to be (from Yahoo answers):

> What does it mean to bury your soul in someone?
>
> I think it means when you tell someone everything all at once.
> Metaphorically you are taking everything inside of you (your soul) and
> burying it into someone (telling them). Now, everything you told to that
> person stays with them
>
I can find:
He once noted it's better to make the soul into a gold mine than to *bury
one's soul* in a goldmine.

Or riches obliterate one's conscience, *bury one's soul* in the gutter of
one's greed.

Yet there is awful truth in Rabbit's cynical thesis that “fraud makes the
world go round,” and that to submit to it is to *bury one's soul*.

which seem to be the opposite of baring one's soul.
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