Like a burst of hope
A heartening simile in a vivid, gripping narrative of humans ground between the shifting tectonic plates of contradictory but equally...
What is war?
Saint-Exupery wrote a slim, subtle stream-of-consciousness account of a futile aerial reconnaissance flight over enemy occupied territory which he had...
A tongue twister triologism
I liked this punchy, tongue-twisting image of remote and mountainous Macedon.
‘He will get home. That is to say,...
Fuel for the body or mind?
Book burning, or bibliocide, is usually something we associate with ideologues, political or religious, fearful of the free flow of...
Can’t bear the noise
I don't blame them either. A delightful recollection of a sensible ursine response to the outrage of war in their...
War wounds
Listening time: 4 minutes.
Among the warm-hearted and even funny accounts of people they met in the Soviet...
Troy the spoiler
Agamemnon appealing to God with a sour grape Greek’s spitting contempt for the Trojans, like a school yard bully’s name-calling...
Stunt-hoop tambourines
The timbre and beat of martial music as the Greek states gather behind Agamemnon for an almighty war.
‘Immediately
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Clear-voiced heralds
Logue’s vivid rendition of several episodes in the Iliad pulsates with fresh phrasing and is a trove of triologisms. Here,...
Shields like clinkered hulls
A marvelous description of the helots’ tightly held, flexible and impregnable shield wall, like the scales of a fish, or...
Wood and war
I liked these two woody similes for war and death, the first to convey the din and crash of battle,...
Flailing blades and razored vanes
This reminds me of pictures of ancient war chariots in children’s history books, with blades poking out of the wheel...
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