Was I removed from your blogroll because of my "Kerry Will Be Destroyed" post? It was more of a general bit of apocalyptic gnomism than a political statement, one that should be read anagogically.
For the record, I'd vote for Alexander Haig if he were the Democratic nominee this year.
And I don't know if you had anything to do with the cover art for the Short Sun books, but how the same publisher could commission the (by the standards of the genre) sublime Long Sun omnibus covers and then follow up with something so embarrassing I had to cover with grocery bags remains one of the vital mysteries.
It was Orwell's contention in that essay that mixed metaphors of this type denoted a lack of original thought, as anyone actually thinking of these images could not use them in such a conflicting and garbled way.
Leaving aside the issue of stylistic quality, why is it that we don't have any trouble understanding what Milburn means? I've always thought that "the facist octopus singing its swan song" is a beautiful image.
I think some of Mark Turner's work on "blending" is applicable.
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