I realise that I've started thinking in similes.
One came to me last week at platform 4, waiting for my train again, surrounded by passengers I'll never know.
I found myself thinking that other people are like the lit front rooms of basement flats I used to see on evening walks through leafy North Oxford, all those summers ago.
Briefly, in passing, they all seem pleasant places to spend time, but you have no chance of seeing anywhere near enough to be certain.
Not a perfect simile, but it'll do.
After all, there's nothing quite like a really good simile.
Jejune - a poem
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At least you know what a simile is ..:) Hope you are well I need to catch up on some of your posts xx
You are like a box of chocolate, milk and darkly bitter, sweet, chewy, and the nutty ones that tend tend stick somewhere unreachable.
I had to laugh out loud when I read this. It was like a Woody Allen reflection of my own observations of looking at life as though inside the goldfish bowl looking out, never knowing most of the people in the world and probably never seeing them again.
I have also saved that observation of yours as there being "nothing quite like a really good simile" as one of my favorites.
I'm afraid I get a bit confused sometimes - similies, metaphors, etc. Nothing a good English class wouldn't fix, right? Not much longer.
you are much too good at the 100 words thing- it makes me feel very inadequate! loved this one
Thanks to everybody who commented on this one. Anyone looking for further illustrations of a superlative simile need go no further than Moannie's comment, though it seems some people find me the coffee cream of the blogging world.
Incidentally, I was at a party once with an utter twat who was convinced that the coffee cream is everybody's favourite chocolate in a selection box. He couldn't explain why there were always so many left at the end. He also thought Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade was the best Indiana Jones film, so he was clearly a whopping bell end.
Rose - You should try it! It's an awful lot of fun. Though you shouldn't for a second think that you only write 100 words when you do one of these.
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