These Spindrift Pages

These Spindrift Pages by Theodore Dalrymple

He had a notebook. He decided to use it by taking notes about his reading. A jaunt over mostly non-fiction, but not all. Ranges back in time to Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and G.K. Chesterton, but a lot over time. And all sorts of subjects.

ah metaphors

Once a writer was skipping along in her work, describing a bear as cinnamon colored. . .

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