RARA-AVIS: "Pretentious" metaphors

From: Ed Lynskey ( e_lynskey@yahoo.com)
Date: 18 Jan 2003

--- abc@wt.net wrote:
> For my money, the modern master of metaphor (note the poetic
> alliteration) is Joe Lansdale. Not Chandlerian, just good.
>
> Bill Crider

Interesting point, Bill. For some reason, I don't trip over Lansdale's metaphors so much. In the Leonard Pine/Hap Collins romps, maybe it's because of an expectation of the wild, funny ride ahead. I get a big kick out of reading him, with or without the metaphors.

Ed Lynskey

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