How clever can you get?
I liked these piled up and shamelessly outrageous examples of cleverness, although of their various skills, the first is the...
Phone like fungi
Somehow this simile only works with the kind of phone Golding is describing, from the 1950s. It doesn't quite ring...
Of a heart dancing
A marvellous simile for the effect of a woman's movements on a man's heart. I take it to mean her...
The threads of love
A simple yet rich metaphor for love, and I liked the multiple threads of different colours - the various skeins...
The coming of the simoom
This lovely word, which echoes its opposite, a monsoon, refers to a soughingly dry desert wind. Yet another superb simile...
Stillness on the soul
A touching metaphor for stillness, not one of calm and security, but rather a stillness born of despair of escape.Â
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Dull as suet pudding
A charming alternative to ‘dull as ditchwater’.  I also like the last affirmative sentence.
“Your brother is...
A visitation from a minor god
The past is a place which enriches me in almost all I do, and I love travelling there as much...
Of vanishing rain
A simile for evanescent rain, likened to an out of character and fast recalled error, like those social media messages...
Stars like apples
Distant stars appearing so close you could reach up your hand and pick them, like apples in a tree. One...
Swarming possibility
An unusual image, of possibility swarming like larvae, ready to burst into butterfly winged realization. Â
... to...
Unreel writing
There's something of fairy-tale magic in this idea of writing as a thread teased out from the writer's cupboard of...
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