Sunlight dripping
Durrell's various Greek island books and Miller's Colossus of Maroussi enchanted me with their marvelous descriptions of people, places and...
Perfect teeth
Something simply pearl-fect about these teeth, and a neat simile to describe the darting in and out of an endlessly...
A fine wine
What a wonderful scene, a simple lunch washed down with a local wine the colour of molten amber, and intriguingly,...
As permanent as …
The meringue as a simile for impermanence, which prompts me to invent a new sweet bake, the melt in your...
The poet as compass
An enigmatic statement, perhaps born of the difficulty of pinning down Odysseus' journey on a real map, although there is...
A piercing sound
A high, piercing pipe sound likened to midges harassing the air, this simile makes me think of the horrifying tsssssssss...
Bee-buzzing hours
Golding discovers ancient graffitti carved in the rocks of a Greek island, by long gone lovers. Wishing you, as we...
Phone like fungi
Somehow this simile only works with the kind of phone Golding is describing, from the 1950s. It doesn't quite ring...
Meat or fish?
On a delightful 20th century Odyssey to Ithaca, Golding is offered the choice of fish or meat. He explains what...
Sea-raddled limestone
Unusual word and usage, 'raddled', and particularly as a simile for hard, grey, hole-riddled bread.Â
God protect one's teeth.Â
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Stars like apples
Distant stars appearing so close you could reach up your hand and pick them, like apples in a tree. One...
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