"His thoughts shimmered like a hesitating stream, gathering into pools of discrete and vivid imagery."
— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Author
Work Title
Date
1992
Metaphor
"His thoughts shimmered like a hesitating stream, gathering into pools of discrete and vivid imagery."
Metaphor in Context
Peace at last. The mingling lashes of half-closed eyes, the slow reluctant flutter of folding wings; his body pounded by felt hammers, pulses dancing like sand on a drum; love and poison evacuating his breath in a long slow exhalation, fading into a privacy he could never quite remember, nor for a moment forget. His thoughts shimmered like a hesitating stream, gathering into pools of discrete and vivid imagery.
(p. 288)
(p. 288)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Quotations drawn from Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk (New York: Picador, 2012).
Date of Entry
09/26/2015
