"His mind unwinding like a spool of loose thread."
— Nadzam, Bonnie
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Other Press
Date
2011
Metaphor
"His mind unwinding like a spool of loose thread."
Metaphor in Context
It was hot. Everything bleached white and yellow in the punishing heat. When Lamb turned and saw the girl working her legs and sweating and squinting into the sun--Christ, what can a man say? It was like his bones had been wired tight all his life, and seeing her that way, everything suddenly went slack. His mind unwinding like a spool of loose thread. What a man she rendered him, simply by being a girl who could be picked up and moved: what he wanted to be, what he ought to be, what was most unintelligible and unplanned and true in him when he carried her out of her fettered world to this. How powerful she was as long as she asserted no will of her own.
(p. 167)
(p. 167)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Bonnie Nadzam, Lamb (New York: Other Press, 2011).
Date of Entry
06/07/2016
