Theory 1: in a pre-theoretical fashion, he was using similes the same way choruses work in minimalist theory. Use it enough and the like becomes birdsong, repetition leads to subvocalization, it's no longer a word as we understand it, but logos in the Greek sense of a unifying force.
Theory 2: Cormac, completist that he was, and stylist t…
Theory 1: in a pre-theoretical fashion, he was using similes the same way choruses work in minimalist theory. Use it enough and the like becomes birdsong, repetition leads to subvocalization, it's no longer a word as we understand it, but logos in the Greek sense of a unifying force.
Theory 2: Cormac, completist that he was, and stylist that he was, read a smattering of popular genre books from the period or thereabouts that he was writing about, found them rife with similes, and so aped it.
Theory 3: The brutality of the source material transcends the abuse of similes. A book where the judge exists can have as many fucking similes as it wants.
immediately i wrote the line "...taken out of their context and put back in" i had a despicable simile or metaphor form in my mind along the lines of you cant get the full measure of the scene when you pull the dick out until you've seen what it was being pushed into on the other side of the glory hole.
but i thought that would cheapen the intelligent conversation. however, for me, that kinda works
Theory 1: in a pre-theoretical fashion, he was using similes the same way choruses work in minimalist theory. Use it enough and the like becomes birdsong, repetition leads to subvocalization, it's no longer a word as we understand it, but logos in the Greek sense of a unifying force.
Theory 2: Cormac, completist that he was, and stylist that he was, read a smattering of popular genre books from the period or thereabouts that he was writing about, found them rife with similes, and so aped it.
Theory 3: The brutality of the source material transcends the abuse of similes. A book where the judge exists can have as many fucking similes as it wants.
immediately i wrote the line "...taken out of their context and put back in" i had a despicable simile or metaphor form in my mind along the lines of you cant get the full measure of the scene when you pull the dick out until you've seen what it was being pushed into on the other side of the glory hole.
but i thought that would cheapen the intelligent conversation. however, for me, that kinda works