Bright and blinking
An alliterative description of a bone-like beacon.
'The bright eye of the light-house standing like a bleached bone at the...
Sky-cracking chiaroscuro
We've had a few rain-dousing days of storminess, and yesterday evening I enjoyed a sky-show of shifting banks of chiaroscuro...
Vapour-ringed sun
I recall seeing more vapour-ringed moons than suns, but it may be that I look at the moon more than...
Of striking light
A vivid image, of light striking mountains like a hatchet splitting the darkness. From the first volume of an excellent...
High-tempered light
Something bright and uplifting about this light, as long as you have protection from its blinding effects. And what a...
Of fire and fizzle
This Hungarian historical novel spans the 19th century including the European mid-century revolutions which pretty much burned out, as summed...
Light-poor desert
Elsewhere I have highlighted Lopez’s use of desert images in an Arctic context. Here it’s used to refer to a...
Sleep and scimitars
What a keen metaphor for the bright light piercing of shut-eye night.
See the bestellar review complete with a...
Dimmit dimmity
An English south-west dialect word for dusk or twilight, hinted at in the opening 'dim...'.
'At dimmity it flew down...
Light-stream interplay
The dancing dust of a sunbeam also glimmering as a mirror hall for fireflies. What a bright image.
Genius as lighthouse beams
An interesting metaphor to describe the haphazard workings of genius, appearing like a beam illuminating the surrounding darkness at intervals,...
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