Tent-shaped sides
This tent-like landscape reminds me of the Costa Rican volcano in Arenal which also looks as if a volcanic shake...
Inkhorn in one hand, pen in the other
Orlando enjoys a portfolio career, as a courtier, a diplomat, a landowner, a lady under house arrest, but throughout, he-she...
Scrolloping
A portmanteau word created by Virginia Woolf, apparently combining 'scroll' and 'lollop' to describe heavy, florid ornament, or a rambling...
A quickening of senses
Orlando does in fact travel through a time tunnel for hundreds of years, so this is less of a metaphor...
The magic fabric of life
We forget, mostly, that we live in a time of unprecedented mass luxury and ease. Yes, we are messing up...
Of newt’s slobber and peacock’s gall
A high opinion of doctors, clearly. I loved this scattergun approach to diagnosis and treatment: throw the whole therapeutic cabinet...
Plaid-like juxtapositions
Orlando, born in the 16th century and at home in the 17th and 18th, seems to suffer aesthetic culture shock...
Up and out at dawn
Orlando, who at this stage in her 400 year life has only quite recently woken up to find herself transformed...
Like quicksand beneath a monument
Orlando's love for Sasha is always on such shaky ground as his passion and jealousy and her apparent infidelity and...
Yellow-slashed sky
How many yellow-slashed dawns have I seen and yet never thought of them in these terms.
The man, by the...
Like drops of scalding water
Curious to use 'scalding', suggesting she was happy to have the present fall away from her, that in some respect...
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