Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Friday, 7 June 2024

Delicious similes.

"...then I saw Lillian with an expression on her face
like a stubbed-out cigarette."

"...I noticed that the journalist had got hold of Lillian
and was pouring his opinions over her
like a bucket of sand on to a chemical fire."

– Elizabeth Jane Howard: The Sea Change (1959)


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