Since I am often given to a bit of exaggeration myself in my story telling, I can very glad you like it.
I will refer you to my post to Mary about when I think you need to do more than make a hyperbolic statement. In your case, I have never known you to make one and walk away. (I am sure people on the receiving end of your arguments might wish you had at times) YOu are right there with facts, reasons, and I think this is true also of (oh shoot, I can't spell her new name)Ionesco, who can say some pretty extreme things, but if you challenge her, you get her rationale and source for every comment.
We need a nickname for her.
Leuthy.
Leuthy in the Sky With Diamonds
Eleuth-- no eleuthive answers from her
I think I will just go with Ele.
I think you kind of prove his point though, when you indicate the attention it involves to follow the more tension-filled metaphor-- a task you enjoy, but others can't always handle. If it is too strained, the discrepancies overwhelm and negate the metaphor or the point itself. For instance, I can see the Holocaust and abortion suggestion, but what it does is make me dig in my heels because it has too many dissimilarities.
ANyway- I agree with your final statement
purple prose isn't necessarily a sin in my book, if the person is funny or otherwise interesting. |
