Sound medical advice
I love a doctor's advice to the apathetic aristocrat Oblomov, suggesting he minimize stress by avoiding the awkward and exhausting...
Publishers, monkeys, monkeys, publishers
I love the way Captain Flint sees his mission to find a monkey for the children as a refreshing change...
The first golden age
Continuing his retelling of the myth of Creation, Ted Hughes reminds us of a first golden age...
Putting everything right
Grossman's capacity to capture, with simplicity and delicacy, the nature and strength of love in many contexts is always touching. ...
A dam snake
Infrastructure likened to a curling serpent, whereas most serpentine similes I've seen have been speed-related. See Tarka the Otter,...
The jewel of learning
An original simile to describe the architecturally solid seat of learning in Dublin, set in and setting off the relative...
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...
Definitions of philosophy II
I read and think quite a bit. However, when it comes to Western philosophy, it has always felt like a...
Language in orbit
A poet can provide the initial lift-off, but then the poem enters its own orbit and runs on its own...
The hardest thing in the world
Curious that this comment by John Steinbeck so closely echoes a similar observation on the difficulty of...
A circular accent
Seamus Heaney describes a circle to convey the sounds of the Ulster accent, drawing an image of tangential consonants and...
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