Etcetera reviews Sonia Faleiro’s book
And so we get plenty of wordplay and descriptive detail. Nothing is too insignificant to be let off without a metaphor or two, ranging from the mildly amusing to dangerously cliched. Thus we have the earth “encrusting the casket like pastry bubbling into hardness,� a bar and its location as mismatched as “vegetarianism and a Goan� and as “profoundly antipodean� as the “Rua’s many little old ladies and the one young lady who lived opposite Breto’s in a stone mansion, and many years later flung herself into the well in the corner of her garden.�
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MadMan
May 17th, 2006 at 7:36 am | #
The link is dead. I get a 404.
Patrix
May 17th, 2006 at 9:29 am | #
Hmmm…The blog author seems to have ditched the post. Wonder why.
Karthik
May 17th, 2006 at 11:18 am | #
Sorry, my bad. I edited something, and marked this post accidentally as private. It is online now.
MadMan
May 18th, 2006 at 4:53 am | #
Damn it Patrix, your site is showing me Google ads only for freakin’ matrimonial sites. My mother is bad enough; I don’t need this from DP too. :p
Patrix
May 18th, 2006 at 9:55 am | #
Madman, you have been in beta stage for far too long. After all, DP like your mother, only wants what’s best for you