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Maeve Livingstone
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Tiger’s influence on Grahame Coats.
SPIDER
Simile wow
basking in how extremely cool it was to be him…and for the first time even that, somehow, wasn’t enough.
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Spider smiled like a saint. The world, given that it had Rosie in it, was the best world that any world could possibly be. The fog had lifted, the world had ungloomed.
FAT CHARLIE’S
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It was a hell flight, and Fat Charlie was sleeping through it.
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In Fat Charlie’s dream
wearing a wedding dress, although this one was covered with dust and with cobwebs.
Miss Haversham! Great Expectations by Dickens
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Haha - can things get any worse for our Charlie?
Mrs. Higgler
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Haha Mee too
Haha yay Florida!
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Fat Charlie spotted it he was, only for a moment, as scared as he had ever been of anything.
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“We can’t make him go away,” said Mrs. Dunwiddy, her old brown eyes almost black behind her pebble-thick spectacles. “But we can send you to somebody who can.”
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Grahame Coats
Either way, it was the witching hour.
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“The four earths.
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give away nothing you own, and make no promises.
Attempts to bargain with or control the forces one does not fully understand rarely end …. without consequences. p. 68
That was the thing a lot of people didn’t understand. Magic abhorred imbalance. And always exacted a price. pp. 25, 286, 299, 385
~ A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark (2021)
Simile extended
Compé Anansi’s child?”
the man-lion
an immense man
Elephant.
Lion
Snake
“Your whole damn family nothin’ but trouble. I ain’t gettin’ mixed up in your messes.”
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Simile creepy
Haha yup: The Destruction of Sennacherib, by George Gordon, Lord Byron
https://allpoetry.com/The-Destruction-Of-Sennacherib
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“I am Tiger.
Once, everything was mine—the stories, the stars, everything. He stole it all away from me.
Simile metaphor
“You don’t go around making people laugh at things,” explained Tiger.
