23.8.08

similes

Two favourite comparisons drawn in books recently read.
The next morning I left the city in one of the blue vans that constantly circulate its streets, taking people to the airport like cells that remove free radicals from the blood.

from Grief, by Andrew Holleran (p. 150)
Hologram Boy saw God as more human than human, moving among subhuman beings like the weekly celebrity among the Muppets on The Muppet Show.

from The Accidental, by Ali Smith (p. 40)

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