@parados,
Okay, let me explain to you how this works.
Example A: "The object fell on me". Now you will think they mean the object actually fell on them, but that's not it. They are meaning it in the sense that someone says "my project failed on me"; they are meaning as the object fell on their watch.
Example B: "Mars is the planet of war." People will say, "no, that's just a myth". Well duh, but since when was referencing a concept that isn't true a colloquial crime? We say that it's raining like cats and dogs, or that the wind is singing a beautiful tune. Humanization, personification or anthropomorphism is truly something billions of people simply don't get.
So as you can see, what you don't get is that there is more than one context to the sentence I am writing. I said specifically "excavate the hollow shell". That could mean A. excavating the hollow shell itself, which is what you're trying to correct me on, when I mean B. excavate within the perimeters of the hollow shell - within it, inside, not it, itself.