Tag: metaphor
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The World Wakes Up
Tomorrow I have to be awake and dressed at seven for a furnace technician. I don’t know how people do that every day. The world wakes up long before I want to do so. Sometimes Ben wakes me up even earlier and that is unpredictable. I can set an alarm for tomorrow and know it’s…
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Setting My Sights
I never qualified on the M16. I couldn’t see the distant targets and I had trouble hitting the ones I could see. I’m trying to think of a point where someone taught me to set the sights on my rifle. I don’t think I ever did so properly and can’t blame myself for that. That…
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Moving Fingers Writing
On of my favorite stanzas in poetry is:“The moving finger writes and having writMoves on nor all your piety and witCan lure it back to cancel half a lineNor all your tears wash out a word of it.”(Fitzgerald’s translation from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat) This caused an argument with Stephanie. You see she’s among other things…
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