![]() ![]() ![]() Like a tick filled to full tension and seeking another bloated tick with which to grasp, rub, and burst those fat bodies into an ectoparasitic constellation. It’s kind of exhausting and kind of exhilarating, but surely unique in a way that pangolins are unique (whether punning with those superlong tongues or not). And all this writer’s similes could turn smiling gurus into frowning nuns if it weren’t for the shear bombast, originality, and dedication at being the best similesmith in the smiling and frowning universe. Putting brass tacks on the track only speeds up the process. ![]() A compulsion, maybe, that can only tire itself with endless invention. It’s almost like when you trip in a pun marathon and can’t stop scraping your bloody knees along the Tartan track-you just keep on the fuck punning for the fun of it. Robbins dipped that implement in lead and swung it crushing to every clause with or without a purpose. Sure, I’ve read novels that used simile as a crutch, but Mr. I can’t remember saying that about anything else. ![]() Instructive, too especially since this is one of two works I’m reading as preparation for my own second-person novella. I’m not sure if this book had to be written in this POV, but it sure as hell makes it interesting. The fact that this entire novel is written in second person makes this line genius. ![]()
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