>Anyone else have an overworn literary metaphor or
desription that grates?
>
ooh! ooh! i got one! can't find the book right now, to give
the exact line, but it's in berlin noir, by philip kerr: it's
something like, "his voice sounded like that of a man
straining at a bowel movement."
THAT one had me hysterical for days. try talking like that,
go ahead. it isn't easy. http:/www.dennismcmillan.com
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