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- From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
- Subject: Re: Clive Barker: From _The_Thief_Of_Always_
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.141723.10128@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
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- Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens
- References: <1hb7d2INNm4c@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:17:23 GMT
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- In article <1hb7d2INNm4c@agate.berkeley.edu> chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
- >POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!!!
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- >This is a description of a storm, from Barker's new book _The_Thief_Of_Always_.
- >( Harper Collins, 240 pages, $20 ).
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- >"It had more than lightning at its dark heart. It had the light rains that
- >came at early morning to coax forth the seeds of another spring; it had the
- >drooping fogs of autumn, and the spiraling snows that had brought so many
- >midnight Christmases ... shafts of sunlight piereced the storm-clouds in the
- >name of Summer, only to be smothered by Fall's fog, while ... Spring coaxed
- >its legions out of bough and earth, then saw its buds murdered by Winter's
- >frosts before they could show their colors."
- >
- >Was King ever as good? =)
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- I believe the passage you quote is one that the New Yorker
- would entitle "Block that metaphor!"...
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- Wayne
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