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- From: mcwg9235@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marsha Woodbury )
- Subject: "that throws light on the bank"
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- Summary: hmmm
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:51:43 GMT
- Keywords: what kind of bank?
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- In an art class I'm taking, we are reading Louis Sullivan,
- architect, writing about form and function. He writes,
- in a dialogue format, about form and function, then
- the respondent says, "that throws light on the bank"
-
- OK, is that an expression about throwing light on a
- problem? Or is it about bank buildings? A foreign
- student asked me to explain, and I wasn't sure.
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- Marsha Woodbury marsha-w@uiuc.edu
- A simile is like a metaphor.
- University of Illinois, Middle of Nowhere
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