"Faced with this curvature of his imagination, he experienced a fresh outbreak of self-allergy."
— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Date
2000
Metaphor
"Faced with this curvature of his imagination, he experienced a fresh outbreak of self-allergy."
Metaphor in Context
'Oh, God,' muttered Patrick. He felt the constant longing to escape his own habits of expression, and then watched the tyranny of his taste, like a bullet in the heart of a skylark, reintroduce him to the inevitability of certain rhythms, certain symmetries, certain tricks of argument. Faced with this curvature of his imagination, he experienced a fresh outbreak of self-allergy. Maybe things hadn't changed that much since his student days.
(p. 136)
(p. 136)
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Reading
Citation
Edward St. Aubyn, A Clue to the Exit (London: Chatto & Windus, 2000).
Date of Entry
09/19/2015
