Swooning over this simile
June 27th, 2008
Listen to this line from The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon: “He checks behind the hot-water tanks, lashed to one another with straps of steel like comrades in a doomed adventure.”
Wow. Wow oh wow oh wow.
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