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Clichés In Fiction, Yuk!

But is inky blackness as black as coal? Precisely how black is this inky blackness.
 
What about blue ink? never hear about inky blueness. This part is not funny. I was thinking about forum this morning. Was riding bicycle and found dead dog. Big dog hit by car. Whoever hit him just left him there which made me angry. If they were good Buddhists they should have took him to wat. Dog could be reincarnation of somebody's mother or something. I am not joking here. Anyway guys from district office who water the flowers by the road did take him away. Actually here driving is terrible and it is not unusual to see dead people, usually motorbike riders, lying in the road. Once I saw 4 dead bodies in one day. Cops draw chalk marks around them like murder victims. Then someoen usually puts a little house, called a spirit house, on side of road near accident where ghost of dead person could live. People bring flowers and food for offerings to the spirit every day. These houses are everywhere, and is constant reminder to be careful when driving here.
 
People do that in the United States too but instead of spirit houses they erect crosses and such. I think they are eyesores.
 
Stewart said:
Somewhere a tree barked.

Somewhere, a dog disembarked.

Somewhere, a boat barqued.
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This requires elaboration.

Somewhere a dog embarked upon a barque, but finding nothing but a debarked tree, decided to disembark.
 
Not "in fiction", sadly, but interesting article on trying to create new clichés:

Britain's politicians should embrace cliches till the cows come home | Simon Lancaster | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Our politicians are trying to live to Orwell's creed. They all want to be the ones who create the "iron curtains" and "winds of change" of the future; coming up with the expressions that frame the debate and shape the way we feel about an issue.

But they can't. They simply don't have the imagination and experience required. Churchill and Macmillan conjured rich and exciting imagery because they had lived rich and exciting lives before going into politics. Today's political language is empty because the souls of the people at the top are empty.
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