The shape of things to come
Leigh Fermor's walk across Europe in the early 1930s captures many things that would be swept away in the following...
Of bitterns and beaks
A moss stalk and seed likened to a bird and beak. Lovely.
'Over and under and past boulders of granite,...
Ignoring your foes
You can see Mr Flay side-stepping the presence of his mortal foe, Swelter, as one side-steps other unpleasantness in one's...
Collective noun for epithets
I like this collective noun for epithets, 'artillery' suggesting a quickfire delivery of pithy comments, with the additional charm of...
As irrelevant as…
Poor Mr. Dickson, but what a strong simile for irrelevance in the brightness of daylight.
'Mr. Dickson leaning...
As piercing as …
This piercing stare at a little girl is disturbing for its lack of empathy or even warmth towards a child.  ...
As blue and as vague as …
A beautiful image, blueness and vagueness likened to 'unmapped lakes', and these, referring to eyes, being misted over with the...
For love of Ajax
Nine words, three sentences, and you see Ajax before you and how he is seen by thousands of Greek soldiers....
Poplars in November
Yes, poplars look like giant feathers poked in the ground, here bedraggled by the onset of winter.
'In November the...
A shire-sized dust-sheet
The tearing of a dust-sheet isn’t an obvious sound to describe the dis-scabbarding of a Greek sword, and then Logue...
The press and vice
An extraordinary and vivid image of sin as something that forces pain to infiltrate every vein. Given the more pious...
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