"The smell of cocaine assailed him and he felt his nerves stretching like piano wires."
— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Author
Work Title
Date
1992
Metaphor
"The smell of cocaine assailed him and he felt his nerves stretching like piano wires."
Metaphor in Context
Taking no risks, he stuck the spike into a thick vein in the back of his hand. The smell of cocaine assailed him and he felt his nerves stretching like piano wires. The heroin followed in a soft rain of felt hammers playing up his spine and rumbling into his skull.
(p. 288)
(p. 288)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Quotations drawn from Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk (New York: Picador, 2012).
Date of Entry
09/26/2015
