From The Grim Grotto:
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that happy things are tainted with sadness, the way smoke leaves its ashen colors and scents on everything it touches. And you may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.
What other author plays with words as much as Lemony Snicket? Any suggestions?
2 comments:
Play with words? How about "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster Have you read it? All sorts of plays on words, many of the "pun" / homonym variety, but many others as well.
"Is this the right road to
Dictionopolis? If there is a road to get there, it would be the right road, as there isn't a wrong to road to Dictionopolis"
(Illustr. by Jules Feifer, with into./appreciation by Maurice Sendak (a sort of recommendation by association)
Oh yes! "The Phantom Tollbooth" is a great one! I discovered it while at someone's house babysitting late one night, as a teenager....many years ago. It is probably the book that started me along the road of loving wordplay...or at least it encouraged that love.
I should probably re-read it, just for fun.
Any other ideas out there?
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