Thread: Literary Silk by Alessandro Baricco
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Old 04-08-2015, 11:58 PM   #8
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Yes, I agree. I wrote on Goodreads:
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Light and delicate as a piece of silk. Beautiful and ultimately heartbreaking.
So we both used that metaphor, as I'm sure the author was intending. The repetitions reminded me a bit of a fairy tale, and served I think to emphasise what an immense journey was being undertaken.
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