Metaphors and similes. They’re like windy days: some days they blow you away completely, some days they just make your eyes water. (Sorry). We’ve all seen some good ones, and some not so good ones. Here’s one I just came across that stopped me in my tracks, from the novel Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds. This is science fiction, no less:
In the distance, a billion pebbles sighed orgasmically under the assault of another sea wave.
Remind anyone of their honeymoon? Here it is again in context, in case that makes a difference:
The silver sun burned overhead, a blank coin shining through a caul of grey sea fog. Skade settled into a flesh-and-blood body, as she had before. She was standing on a flat-topped rock; the air was cold to the bone and prickled with ozone and the briny stench of rotting seaweed. In the distance, a billion pebbles sighed orgasmically under the assault of another sea wave.
So, have you got any good ones? Or bad ones? Got any real stinkers? Let’s have them.
