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Mixing Metaphors
It’s always fun to find an otherwise erudite writer committing a line like this one: “The public image of ‘Emily Dickinson’ has been built up over the years, alternately embroidered by fantasies and barnacled with lies….” (Robert Douglas-Fairhurst in his review of Lyndall Gordon’s Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds.)Read More