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To: barker
Then, her eyes, brown and round like a teddy bear's, the windows to the soul, she calls them.

Such elegant writing, this, that I first thought she was linking the appositive phrase "the windows to the soul" with teddy bears.

Then I finally realized that she was attempting to use the standard cliché metaphor for 'the eyes'. The corrolary is that the eyes are also windows to a soul posessed, as evidenced by this photo....


21 posted on 08/15/2004 8:56:17 PM PDT by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong.)
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To: beezdotcom
*ack*...POSSESSED...
22 posted on 08/15/2004 8:57:31 PM PDT by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong.)
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