The garment of silence
The hum of insects, bees buzzing about the flowers, can be one of the most soothing of sounds and George...
Pah to the Iliad
Tom dismisses one of the world's greatest epics, a 3,000 year old classic of war, on the grounds that its...
Broad-leaved sycamores and weary-hearted women
George Eliot writes sensitively and movingly of the early manifestation of Methodism. She wrote Adam Bede around 1850 but set...
Like a recovered joy
What a beautiful notion, a recovered joy, and as a description for the reappearance of the sun's warmth! It reminds...
Melancholy-looking satellite
An intriguing triologism, part of an inventively astronomical metaphor to distinguish a man's head from his much larger body, so...
The embers of resentment
How many families or other relationships does this describe? The embers of resentment suddenly fanned into flame by a passing...
Three-cornered chair
It is years - decades - since I saw one of these, but I grew up with an oak one,...
Like an ant carrying a caterpillar
Here the kind and honest Adam Bede goes a-wooing, offering to help Hetty carry a heavy basket. She's indifferent to...
The spread of news
It's some time since I noted this simile for the effective spread of news. Now, re-reading it as we watch...
Scant-leaved boughs
Looking out onto the winter leaf-bare boughs, I liked this autumnal image of apples shining like baubles on scant-leaved branches.
...Flittering superficiality
A sweet way to convey an incapacity for empathy in a self-involved giddy girl. A butterfly goes about its business,...
Pocket money sexism
Tom Tulliver once again spurns his sister, putting her in her place in a depressing translation of boy-versus-girl worth in...
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