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Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?


Amy Summers


#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #metaphor #random

People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when the midwife know that the mother shed too much blood, and she who don't reach fourteen birthday yet speak curse 'pon the chile and the papa, and then she drop down dead like old horse. Not when blood spurt from the skin, on spring from the axe, the cat-o'-nine, the whip, the cane and the blackjack and every day in slave life is a day that colour red. It soon come to pass when red no different from white or blue or black or nothing. Two black legs spread wide and mother mouth screaming. A black baby wiggling in blood on the floor with skin darker than midnight but the greenest eyes anybody ever done seen. I goin' call her Lilith. You an call her what they call her.


Marlon James


#blood #color #historical-fiction #metaphor #red

You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die? Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.


Stephen King


#metaphors #defeat

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.


Octavio Paz


#couple #excellence #forces #forms #human

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.


Isaac Marion


#punctuation #change

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!


George Eliot


#change

I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.


Rick Yancey


#metaphor #dreams

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.


Faith Hunter


#faith

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.


Bertrand Russell


#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

the road is life


Jack Kerouac


#motto #life






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