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Anyone who discusses Perry Miller and his work, it seems, turns sooner or later to his metaphor of the New England "errand run into the wilderness"; it fits the man almost as well as his material. Miller himself used the phrase to describe the Messianic impulse which characterized colonial America. His friends and colleagues, contributors to this memorial issue of The Harvard Review, employ it to catch something of the impression he made...
...there was more to the old Nick than a Ph.D. from Sing Sing. He was a man of resplendent metaphor. His shoe trees were casts that had been made from his feet, and he described himself as distingue. W. C. Fields modeled his style, his speech and his manner after Nicky Arnstein. Something quite approximate to the real Nicky might have cured the flaws in Funny Girl. Instead, Stark settled for a paraffin prince out of Franz Lehar, who only turns to fraud out of temporary insanity arising from his embarrassment over accepting handouts from Fanny. Hence Barbra Streisand...
What is left when the scenery stops falling? Well, the book can be seen to be an enormous, lavender metaphor: Leonard is soul, Victor is body, opposed in unnatural self-division. The most pompous piffler since Colin Wilson takes 376 pages to plumb this irrelevancy to its wuthering depths. One vote for Mailer...
...veteran editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell. Quoting Gertrude Stein on the absoluteness of creation, Maxwell once said: "If 'a rose is a rose is a rose,' a rose is also a rose-making machine. Cheever is a storymaking machine." To untangle the somewhat lush botanical metaphor, this means not merely that Cheever is a natural writer, who thinks best about events in the pattern of a fable, but that he himself has become his own best-realized character...
...word about professorial metaphors: the reader does not expect flowing and melodious prose in a book of this kind, but he could request Woodworth not to write sentences like "Local companies need not espouse either horn of the dilemma..." And in making a very simple point on page 96, Woodworth uses an extended metaphor which includes cores, roots, flowers, fruit, tangents, shooting stars, and satellites...