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2005-10-10 Fifth Column

BostonButtProbe Metaphor Shopping: The labyrinth of Iraq

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Posted by .com 2005-10-10 04:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ooooh, someone's studied Classic Lit'rachah... and can write at a high school level. There is a small amount of creativity in the choice of maze as metaphor, rather than the cliched quagmire. But the metaphor was overused in the essay, and the final paragraph was not well-reasoned nor well-connected to the previous imagery. One can almost hear the writer gasping for breath as he rounds third base, then misses on the slide into home plate. I'd give it a C+ for the attempt.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 06:23|| 2005-10-10 06:23|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL! But at the third grade level, I would have given it an A+!!

Posted by 2b 2005-10-10 07:23|| 2005-10-10 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 They need to lay off the weed for a while.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-10 07:51|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-10 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 James Carroll has to be their worst op-ed columnist; that's saying a lot.

Posted by Raj 2005-10-10 09:24|| 2005-10-10 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Yo Mistuh Carroll: say all this to Colonel Kurilla's face.

Posted by Matt 2005-10-10 12:19|| 2005-10-10 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Lol, Matt. That would do it. Mending shattered femur or no, Kurilla could eat the entire MSM alive - single-handed.

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 13:02|| 2005-10-10 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 I think The Globe's gotta keep this guy around to make Derrick Z. Jackson look like "the sane one". Some kind of union thing...

Posted by tu3031 2005-10-10 13:11|| 2005-10-10 13:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Trailing Wife- If I had ever written a paper like that in high school, I would have been murdered for the blatent misuse of a metaphor...

Posted by SJB 2005-10-10 16:54|| 2005-10-10 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 SJB, some teachers and schools have higher standards than others. But I suspect even at your school you wouldn't have actually been rendered deceased just for writing such a breathless piece of trash. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-10 18:20|| 2005-10-10 18:20|| Front Page Top

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