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an excellent way to make me SHAKE MY FIST AT THE SKIES and refuse to ever read anything you've written ever again, okay
is to use the metaphor
"dull as rock"
JUST SAYING.
(In fact I'd be less disproportionately irritated by it if it weren't for all the other things in this book that're pissing me off -- Babel-17, Samuel R Delaney, WHY IS IT SO FULL OF REALLY LAZY SIZEISM, WHY, HE CAN CLEARLY WRITE BETTER THAN THAT, and that is not all said the Cat in the hat -- but hey! This is, I think, going to be good shorthand for my frustrations with him. Though, er, anyone feel like telling me whether the sizeism is as rampant and infuriating in his other stuff? Because if it is I'll just continue pretending that Dhalgren is a queer utopia - haven't read it - and read Octavia Butler instead, wah-wah.)
is to use the metaphor
"dull as rock"
JUST SAYING.
(In fact I'd be less disproportionately irritated by it if it weren't for all the other things in this book that're pissing me off -- Babel-17, Samuel R Delaney, WHY IS IT SO FULL OF REALLY LAZY SIZEISM, WHY, HE CAN CLEARLY WRITE BETTER THAN THAT, and that is not all said the Cat in the hat -- but hey! This is, I think, going to be good shorthand for my frustrations with him. Though, er, anyone feel like telling me whether the sizeism is as rampant and infuriating in his other stuff? Because if it is I'll just continue pretending that Dhalgren is a queer utopia - haven't read it - and read Octavia Butler instead, wah-wah.)
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Of course 'Seemed charming' and 'uses metaphors that greatly annoy our lithophilic brethren' aren't necessarily mutually exclusive ;)