I am in Big Snob mode today. I made extravagant fun of an article on the front page of the Washington Post Style section this morning because it begins "Like a cloak of insanity, the snow dropped."
I would like to know what a cloak of insanity is. I mean, is it like the holocaust cloak in The Princess Bride? Or Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak? No, no, it must be like neither of those things, since it is apparently made of separate and widely-dispersed particles. In fact, snow dropping is not like a cloak -- especially not like a “cloak of insanity,” whatever that is.
The rest of the article is just as bad, indulging in indiscriminate use of second person address, dumped quotations, and about a thousand more inappropriate and mixed metaphors. Its point seems to be that the writer finds snow scary. Not because of slipping on roads or anything. Just because, you know…cloak of insanity. I can’t believe this crap gets published.
I did add to the graffiti on the study carrel a little while ago, though, in a mood of aggreived intellectualism that I think was in this instance entirely warrented: someone had written “Greeks need to get over themselves!!” To which someone else had responed “How about Geeks need to get out of my school.”
To which I have now appended “It does seem geeks belong in school…”
I certainly hope so. Or maybe I’m wrong. Could be I’m just wearing my cloak of insanity today.
I would like to know what a cloak of insanity is. I mean, is it like the holocaust cloak in The Princess Bride? Or Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak? No, no, it must be like neither of those things, since it is apparently made of separate and widely-dispersed particles. In fact, snow dropping is not like a cloak -- especially not like a “cloak of insanity,” whatever that is.
The rest of the article is just as bad, indulging in indiscriminate use of second person address, dumped quotations, and about a thousand more inappropriate and mixed metaphors. Its point seems to be that the writer finds snow scary. Not because of slipping on roads or anything. Just because, you know…cloak of insanity. I can’t believe this crap gets published.
I did add to the graffiti on the study carrel a little while ago, though, in a mood of aggreived intellectualism that I think was in this instance entirely warrented: someone had written “Greeks need to get over themselves!!” To which someone else had responed “How about Geeks need to get out of my school.”
To which I have now appended “It does seem geeks belong in school…”
I certainly hope so. Or maybe I’m wrong. Could be I’m just wearing my cloak of insanity today.
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