In literary terms, a conceit is a device[?] used in order to make a story more accessible to the audience. A simple example of this is the film Speed. In Speed, Sandra Bullock's character is a workaholic that can not slow her life down. She is also stuck on a bus that she can not slow down (or it will explode). Since the audience, obviously, has never been in such a bus, the film-goers can not directly sympathize with the protagonist (Bullock's character). The conceit, however, enables the audience to do so because most people have had a job, friend, lover or hobby that he or she has become obsessive or otherwise spent too much time on. As the audience has struggled with a too-fast life, so can they sympathize with a character stuck on a too-fast bus.
covered it with a rug, took this fellow away with me, and went to
dreadful cries--not like a dog.html">dog's at all. I hurried down. There was
side, dead. This fellow of mine had followed me in, and he went and
wagged his tail along the ground, but would not come away; and there
morning: The thin, lifeless, sandy-coloured body, stretched on those
its haunches like the dog in "The Death of Procris," patient,
eyes.
1912.
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"Je vous dirai que l'exces est toujours un mal."
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
THE GRAND JURY
THRESHING
ROMANCE--THREE GLEAMS
FELICITY
father's boots; inhabiting with his elder brother two little shops
fashionably placed in the West End.
That tenement had a certain quiet distinction; there was no sign upon
German name of Gessler Brothers; and in the window.html">window a few pairs of
unvarying boots in the window, for he made only what was ordered,
made could ever have failed to fit. Had he bought them to put there?
his house leather on which he had not worked himself. Besides, they
patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth,
new, they had been worn a hundred years. Those pairs could only have
they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot.html">foot-gear. These
promoted to him, at the age of perhaps fourteen, some inkling haunted
boots as he made--seemed to me then, and still seems to me,
my youthful foot:
"Isn't it awfully hard to do, Mr. Gessler?"
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