"He thinks and thinks, like his brain was a metal plate and hammer, striking, striking, striking, of the harbour of her sharp breasts, and is murdered, murdered."
— Barry, Sebastian (b. 1955)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Penguin Books
Date
1998
Metaphor
"He thinks and thinks, like his brain was a metal plate and hammer, striking, striking, striking, of the harbour of her sharp breasts, and is murdered, murdered."
Metaphor in Context
[...] And he hugs himself with his long arms in the suit suddenly peculiar to him also, and the leopard departs and this notion, this cockamamie notion of blessed love he has about her, about Roseanne, is not manageable suddenly after all but stabs at him, on the lonesome deck of the mail-packet, and who's to see him, and what odds a man alone, and bugger the thing, and thank the good God there is no one to see him, shrunken into his tears, stabbed and stabbed by the sudden grief -- eternally, entirely, and no, not uniquely, never so, in this wide creation of solo persons, alone. In the matter of a wife, alone. He thinks and thinks, like his brain was a metal plate and hammer, striking, striking, striking, of the harbour of her sharp breasts, and is murdered, murdered.
(p. 280)
(p. 280)
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Reading
Citation
Barry, Sebastian. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
Date of Entry
12/15/2008
Date of Review
01/19/2009
