"Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead."
— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
William Heinemann Ltd.
Date
1963
Metaphor
"Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead."
Metaphor in Context
A short dark man with a high, lisping voice, named Mr. Manzi, stood in front of the class in a tight blue suit holding a little wooden ball. He put the ball on a steep grooved slide and let it run down to the bottom. Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead.
(p. 34)
(p. 34)
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Reading
Citation
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. Modern Classics Deluxe Edition. New York: HarperPerennial, 2006.
Date of Entry
06/11/2009
