"Some magazine stories are fishhooks; they work their way into your mind and don't come out."
— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)
Date
April 28, 2018
Metaphor
"Some magazine stories are fishhooks; they work their way into your mind and don't come out."
Metaphor in Context
Some magazine stories are fishhooks; they work their way into your mind and don't come out. Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker has written several such pieces in the last year, including one about an African-American mother's battle to keep her brain-damaged daughter alive after the girl was declared clinically dead, and another about the way court-appointed legal guardians in Nevada exploit the elderly placed into their care.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Ross Douthat, "Alfie Evans and the Experts," New York Times (April 28, 2018). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
05/09/2018
