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Janna
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Sharon Olds on the “comforting distance” of simile, allowing one to live in a radically interconnected world while remaining exactly oneself. There is no transformation, or collapse, as in metaphor. I love this because I’ve always seen simile as less powerful and direct than metaphor, but this gives me a new understanding of simile as honouring the space between — as a gap across which we can reach and still remain whole in and of ourselves. The excerpt below is from Sam Anderson’s profile of Sharon Olds in The New York Times (h/t Ben Purkert)
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