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Yeah, avoid similes like the plague, so they say. But that one reads so perfectly. Send me your discarded similes. They needs some love. If memory serves me at all, wasn't Jonathan Franzan all similes all the time. I don't have books in front of me -- so I have to check that. and I'll never forget best-seller... Bright Lights Big City - McInerny's simile, speaking of the protagonist's boss: "She had a heart like a ten-minute egg." But you are probably right.