Mental shallows
A splendid simile for a shallow-minded person, and I loved the 'nethermost sediment', in which murk turbid calculations are taking...
Bandy-legged mongrel
This is from a wonderful fictional account of the (real) first dog sent into space by the Soviets. Her life...
Where life meets death
A surprising metaphor for the inexorable link between life and death, with the same sense of something encroaching with age. From...
Make way for others
This made me laugh but sadly, Thoreau didn't record the response of Dr. Bartlett when his kind invitation was declined. ...
A sweetened world
This is a beautiful description of a moment of understanding or enlightenment. Wherever you are, and whatever you are grappling...
Dark-named destiny
Another term for death, the fate of Asios who, horse-proud, insisted on driving his chariot into the fray where he...
Of eyes that saw too much
This is part of a detailed, detached account of what happened when people entered a gas chamber, as experienced by...
For love of a letter
A letter carried, quite literally, close to the heart, despite the torment its presence provokes. Vasily Grossman's mother died in...
Will to live or fear of death?
This refers to the looming death of the Brideshead patriarch, surrounded by his family. I was struck by the implication...
Wood and war
I liked these two woody similes for war and death, the first to convey the din and crash of battle,...
Dismissing death
Rory Stewart's father could be pithy, taciturn, and funny (without necessarily trying to be). Here his son tries to open...
Chain of consequences
Grossman's novel deals with a man who returns to 'normal' life after 30 years in the gulag. Here he shows...
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