Sunday, 1 January 2012

"I eat books"

A lot of people use food metaphors about their reading, but I knew a gal once who gave that notion an interesting twist. She was rail-thin, and people used to ask her how she managed to stay so skinny. Her answer: "I eat books."

6 comments:

  1. Great fun Fi.
    I've always found cookbooks taste the best.

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  2. Hmmm...cookbooks smell very nice, but when it comes to actually ingesting the words, I prefer essays: the good ones have chewy sentences and rich, evocative ideas.

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  3. And I prefer the dark salty tang of a good scandinavian mystery...nice one, Fi!

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  4. At least she got lots of fibre. Great collage Fi!

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  5. Great collage, great comment that sparked it! Wish I was thin enough to use that line. Ha ha.

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