Thread replies: 21
Thread images: 1
Thread images: 1
File: peter-brueghel-adulatori.jpg (74KB, 440x440px) Image search:
[Google]
74KB, 440x440px
Sentence is:
"It's simple enough to recognize this and not follow the sentiment like a __ follows __"
An animal or something natural would be preferential.
>>
>bitch
>me
>>
>>9946067
...like the foul smell follows a turd.
...like a pedophile follows a child.
...like your mother follows the tip of my dick.
Got your back, OP.
>>
>>9946067
like a rabbit follows the hole
>>
like a shadow follows the light
>>
like the sound that follows your footsteps
like a motion that follows a feeling
like a go follows a start
like a hangover follows the beers
>>
Like shame follows a nut
>>
>>9946067
like a lit-user follows the twitter of voice of a generation tao lin
>>
>>9946107
like the crack follows a nut
>>
>>9946067
like a hound tracks spoor.
>>
>>9946226
I like it. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>9946255
Hm. You can track a track, though, so it isn't that bizarre. I'm open to more suggestions.
>like a fly to a bug-light
Like a moth to light is probably what I had on the tip of my tongue when I made the thread.
>>
The analogy is not needed, nor is the 'enough' or 'it'.
> This is simple to recognise and not to follow the sentiment.
>>
>>9946266
Lol. No.
>>
>>9946277
Not a fan of concision, then?
>>
>>9946265
Yes, but there is a level of redundancy there. How about 'like the tide follows the moon'?
I can tell you're using a contrasting image here. You want something which shows a blind following being subverted, like the bug to the light. It's why I don't think 'like hound tracking spoor' works since its not the same implication.
Like cattle follow ranchers?
Like a mouse in a snake's den?
>>
>>9946306
Or perhaps he's wishing to build upon the metaphor with concision rather than being black and white. Why only be concise if you can be evocative as well?
>>
>>9946255
No. People track tracks. And though that TOO is spoor what a hound traces or 'tracks' is a scent, 'the spoor on the wind.'
>>
>>9946984
Redeemable. But it's still not accurate in context. Like OP said, like a moth to a bulb is what he originally had in mind. It implied correcting oneself from being led astray or from blindly following. A hound on a spoor knows exactly where it's going at.
>>
Gong to need more context, what is the tone you're going for?
Thread posts: 21
Thread images: 1
Thread images: 1