"My mind is cloudy on these points."
— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
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March 31, 2016
Metaphor
"My mind is cloudy on these points."
Metaphor in Context
Is there a penultimate damsel to wave smelling salts under one's nostrils? Or to keep one from tripping over one's cankles, now puffy from standing so long? My mind is cloudy on these points. But what's abundantly clear is that the Final Intern-in-Waiting -- large, tall, dark, buxom, and no, her name is not Monica -- is a dab hand at her job. She swiftly memorises the name on your name-tag (mine would have read 'Condi' had I not thought better of it); bestows on you the obligatory but still seductive dollar-sign-with-question-mark smile; then swivels adoringly toward the Cynosure of All Eyes. ('Madam Secretary, I'd like to introduce you to --') And thus is one delivered up -- ripe for ravishment -- with an extra-hard perfectly timed valedictory shove.
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Citation
Terry Castle, "Diary: Shaking Hands with the Hilldebeest," London Review of Books
38:7 (March 31, 2016). <Link to lrb.co.uk>
Date of Entry
05/01/2016
