Our New Deathkingdom
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 07:05:42 CDT 2008
page at quesnelbc.com wrote:
> abruptly. 'The flame isn't worth the candle.'"
>
> Literary and Pynchonian notes: the phrasing "hooked up to life through a
> machine" is marvelous. The machine as intermediary. And the candle
> metaphor...Res ipsa loquitur. I get paid to construct and interpret
> metaphors. No freebies.
>
under no such restriction, I'll admire the permutation
of the old "game not worth the candle" adage
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