"I looked away from them and saw in my mind's eye a plane bursting open and transforming itself into cloud."
— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)
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Work Title
Date
2005
Metaphor
"I looked away from them and saw in my mind's eye a plane bursting open and transforming itself into cloud."
Metaphor in Context
He stopped speaking, but his eyes still stared straight at me, making sure I understood what he was telling me. I looked away from them and saw in my mind's eye a plane bursting open and transforming itself into cloud.
"Wow!" I said. "That's beautiful."
I saw it in my mind again: the plane became a pillow ripping open, its stuffing of feathers rushing outwards, merging with the air.
"Wow!" I whispered.
I saw it a third time--this time as a puff, a dehiscence, a flower erupting through its outer membrane and exploding into millions of tiny pollen specks, becoming light. I'd never seen something so wonderful before.
"Wow! That is really beautiful," I said.
We sat in silence for a while, Naz sweating and bulging, I running this picture through my mind again and again and again. Eventually I turned to him and told him:
"Yes, fine. Go ahead."
(p. 276)
"Wow!" I said. "That's beautiful."
I saw it in my mind again: the plane became a pillow ripping open, its stuffing of feathers rushing outwards, merging with the air.
"Wow!" I whispered.
I saw it a third time--this time as a puff, a dehiscence, a flower erupting through its outer membrane and exploding into millions of tiny pollen specks, becoming light. I'd never seen something so wonderful before.
"Wow! That is really beautiful," I said.
We sat in silence for a while, Naz sweating and bulging, I running this picture through my mind again and again and again. Eventually I turned to him and told him:
"Yes, fine. Go ahead."
(p. 276)
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Reading
Citation
Tom McCarthy, Remainder (New York: Vintage, 2005).
Date of Entry
06/08/2015
