Metaphors the Colour of Television

Analysing William Gibson’s opening line of “Neuromancer”

Flies in Catch-22

Paradox, epanalepsis, and assonance in Joseph Heller’s work

What is a Figure of Speech?

Discussing the meaning of “figure of speech”

Mortal metaphors

Here’s how to get started on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Windows Aint Walls

Ross MacDonald on what it feels like to be a thief …

Rosebuds Bow Courteously

E. B. White‘s exemplary writing, and what makes it so.

The Written Word: Quirks and Perks

Alberto Manguel on metaphors and quotations

On metaphors, quotations, and the continuity of literature, while the world and the times change. From one of the best books about books, A Reader on Reading, by Alberto…

Periodic Before Dawn

Analysing John Banville’s opening line of “The Infinities”

About: A Quiver of Quotes

Quiver on what the website aims to achieve

quote, v. (OED): To reproduce or repeat a passage from (a book, author, etc.); to repeat a statement by (a person); to give (a specified person, body, etc.) as the source of a statement