Thursday, August 12, 2010

sentence du jour

From The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

The Montana sunset lay between two mountains like a gigantic bruise from which dark arteries spread themselves over a poisoned sky."
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  1. PatriceSeptember 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM

    Hmm, sounds a little messy, but I really like the 'bruise' word choice, and 'poisoned sky,' and, wait a minute, does the mixed metaphor taint this passage or enhance it?

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