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Keep your hair shirt on and keep it dark. Keep your fingers crossed and keep it dark. Keep your mind on the job and keep it dark. Keep your ear to the ground and keep it dark. Keep your shoulder to the wheel and keep it dark. Keep your hands to yourself and keep it dark. Keep your thoughts to yourself and keep it dark. Keep your self to yourself and keep it dark. Keep it dark. Keep the ball rolling and keep it dark. Keep the pot boiling and keep it dark. Keep in step and keep it dark. Keep in touch and keep it dark.
Poogly’ is good but I prefer Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, about a 12-year-old boy who wanders through East Kent in a ruined future where towns have decayed into settlements such as Fork Stoan, Widders Bel and Horny Boy, and where he encounters the Wes Mincer, the Pry Mincer and the Ardship of Cambry. Hoban produces a convincing novelist’s explanation for these formations (writing has practically died out, so words mutate into others that sound the same – malapropisms in fact), but that isn’t why they appeal to me.
Before we return to Satan in Hell we have been to Norway and back. We have also moved forwards in time to Milton’s own age, when ships were as big as the one he describes, and back again to 4004 BC (the supposed date of the Creation) when there weren’t any ships at all. So the story of Adam and Eve encompasses the whole world and the whole history of the world – which of course it does, according to Milton. Metaphor and ordinary language Ordinary language is full of metaphor, as in this exchange overheard on a bus.