salīdzinājumu maršs
"[Moore's] analogies and similes, which must average out to at least one per page, interpose layer after layer of remoteness from the real — a “banana-flavored” custard “doesn’t taste like real banana but more like what burped banana tastes like” — and they suggest a frantic impulse to connect anything with anything. They’re not meant to assert a hidden unity in the world: They’re backward assertions that there is no such unity, oblique denials that anything really is like anything else, that there really is such a thing as meaningful connectivity."

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"Is there any meaningful likeness between the doomed romance in the foreground of “Debarking” and the 2003 bombing of Iraq that serves as its backdrop? I doubt Moore thinks so: these are separate desperations, and yoking them together by violence (as Samuel Johnson said Donne and the other metaphysical poets did with their “heterogeneous ideas”) creates a parody of unity and coherence, a sense of dread both aesthetically satisfying and deeply scary."

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/books/review/lorrie-moores-bark.html

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