17 July 2020: "I am Judith of the Apocrypha, and you the orator of Ephesus. That's what they call a metaphor in our country. Don't be afraid of it, sir, it won't bite." --Emily Dickinson, in an 1850 letter to George H. Gould
Working on my Dickinson seminar prep and, boy, did that letter make me chuckle. (You can read the whole thing here.)
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