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“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for/ Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile and metaphor./ Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,/ Can't seem just to say that anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.” But I do love it, Mr. Beagle, and I love you.

Currently reading this in the new 2022 ACE edition vs. my old 1991 ROC paperback. It's hard to read without mental overlay from the movie. Sometimes I resist, sometimes I lean in. This read is for book club. Sadly, I think most of the people aren't going to have cared for it, but I'm hoping it will at least breed good discussion. So much pastiche.