"The surface of the collective psyche was like the worn, stripy ticking of an old mattress."
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.
Date
1991
Metaphor
"The surface of the collective psyche was like the worn, stripy ticking of an old mattress."
Metaphor in Context
So that was it! The surface of the collective psyche was like the worn, stripy ticking of an old mattress. If you punched into its coiled hide at any point, another part would spring up -- there was no action without reaction, no laughter without tears, no normality without its pissing accompanist.
(p. 127)
(p. 127)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Self, Will. The Quantity Theory of Insanity and Other Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
Date of Entry
05/05/2009
