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southendmd:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on October 22, 2009, 10:33:27 pm ---Just needed to say that I love this week´s banner :D
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Thanks, Monika. A little Jack doesn't hurt.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on October 22, 2009, 05:43:18 am ---Bones and clouds are so dissimilar.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 22, 2009, 10:43:58 pm ---She's brave about incorporating way-out-there images and metaphors. Since when does a mountain boil, with demonic energy no less?
Whenever I've tried something the least bit offbeat like that, my editors have sternly deleted it and switched it to something ordinary and predictable: "boneless" to "cloudless" or whatever. Annie either makes it work ... or is so brazen that the editors figure she must know what she's doing.
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I completely agree that clouds and bones are very different, and with the sentiment that Proulx's metaphors are bold. At the same time, though as soon as you read something like "boneless blue" and if you're given the little push that she's talking about the sky... somehow the bones / clouds thing makes sense... or it doesn't take much to begin to think of it as having its own peculiar logic.
I feel the same way about the boiling mountain idea... somehow I kind of feel like I know what she means even though it doesn't make logical sense. I suppose that's what I mean about poetic aspect that I sense in her language.
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 22, 2009, 10:43:58 pm ---She's brave about incorporating way-out-there images and metaphors. Since when does a mountain boil, with demonic energy no less?
Whenever I've tried something the least bit offbeat like that, my editors have sternly deleted it and switched it to something ordinary and predictable: "boneless" to "cloudless" or whatever. Annie either makes it work ... or is so brazen that the editors figure she must know what she's doing.
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'Course one's fiction and the other's journalism. Which I know you know. Now I'm thinking about cloudless chicken breasts.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: atz75 on October 22, 2009, 11:30:49 pm ---At the same time, though as soon as you read something like "boneless blue" and if you're given the little push that she's talking about the sky... somehow the bones / clouds thing makes sense...
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Agreed. Even to me as a foreign speaker, it was immediately clear what she's talking about and made absolute sense when I read the story for the first time. I know I liked that phrase instantly.
--- Quote ---I feel the same way about the boiling mountain idea... somehow I kind of feel like I know what she means even though it doesn't make logical sense. I suppose that's what I mean about poetic aspect that I sense in her language.
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I think the mountain boiling with demonic energy is a bit more far off, a bit more into the field of fantasy. But maybe that's just me, maybe I have too much of it (fantasy, that is). I can easily see the mountain boiling, bubbling and being wobbly - just like a highly piled up jelly pudding, when you shake the plate. But you have to picture it in slow motion of course.
As if the mountain were rearing up (again: in slow-mo) like a horse (or bull), to shake off the rider; the mountain was rearing up to shake off the two intruders who had lived in its paradise long enough.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 22, 2009, 10:43:58 pm ---She's brave about incorporating way-out-there images and metaphors. Since when does a mountain boil, with demonic energy no less?
Whenever I've tried something the least bit offbeat like that, my editors have sternly deleted it and switched it to something ordinary and predictable: "boneless" to "cloudless" or whatever. Annie either makes it work ... or is so brazen that the editors figure she must know what she's doing.
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Pity the fool editor who would try to make her change it. ...
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