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couple choice excerpts from Abbey’s The
Monkey Wrench Gang:
“They roared down the high-centered road, bristly blackbrush and spiny prickly pear clawing at the truck along the greasy perineum of its General Motors crotch.”
“The enemy, only a few miles behind, out of sight but closing the gap, spurred on with extra vigor by the indignity of singed bottoms, scorched automotive coccyges, seared differential scrota, would soon come round the last bend in the trail and see them—Hayduke and Smith, Inc.—crawling slow and beetle-like up this improbable exit way.”
Gotta admit, the man has a way with words. Of course, the
technical term for this literary device is "anthropomorphization." And for those interested in further study, its
commercial application, can be explored here.
