Take a lucky dip in this refreshing pool of posts, randomly selected like literary Russian roulette (but more fun and much safer). Or filter by category to take a deeper dive into specific themes.  Enjoy!
Of sound and silence
A startling description of silence, likened to emulsified sound. Silence, after all, is only sound in emulsion. See two other similes for silence,...
Perfect teeth
Something simply pearl-fect about these teeth, and a neat simile to describe the darting in and out of an endlessly worked toothpick. ... the...
Rising and falling like …
A description of Lindos which charmed me as much for its sea-cleaned pebble paving as for its simile for undulating streets.The narrow streets which...
The eyes have it
WritingRedux has long been captivated by quotations describing eyes and we're now delighted to dedicate a themed page gathering these together for...
Sea-raddled limestone
Unusual word and usage, 'raddled', and particularly as a simile for hard, grey, hole-riddled bread. God protect one's teeth. Some went on nibbling...
On seeing and sensing
Durrell seems to be seeking a subtle way to convey the perception of a view, before suddenly landing a pin-hole camera lens as the right image. But...
A fine wine
What a wonderful scene, a simple lunch washed down with a local wine the colour of molten amber, and intriguingly, 'pumice-bedded'. Savour another...
Of speed and stillness
A beautiful evocation of swiftness resembling stillness, of things moving so fast that they seem stationary.And all this great universe that seems...
Sea-drenched wind
I re-discover this triologism as we emerge from days of rain-drenched wind, waking up to a lush-verdant garden and landscape.  I also like the...
As cold as …
A cool simile for coldness, since jelly by its nature needs to be kept so. See also a superb maritime simile by Keats to convey the same...
A laughing owl
No idea if owls laugh, but I like this phrase. Next time someone says something too daft to credit, feel free to deploy it.It was enough to make an...
Questions like skewers
A fun way to comment on someone asking a lot of questions, likening them to an attorney sticking interrogative skewers into defendents. 'I'm...
Appreciation is a better mode for the understanding of achievement than are all the analytical kinds of accounting for the emergence of exceptional individuals. Appreciation may judge, but always with gratitude, and frequently with awe and wonder. Â
By ‘appreciation’ I mean something more than ‘adequate esteem’. Need also enters into it, in the particular sense of turning to the genius of others in order to redress a lack in oneself, or finding in genius a stimulus to one’s own powers, whatever these may emerge as being.
Source: Harold Bloom, Genius (London: Fourth Estate, 2002), p. 5
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