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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