Kliban by B. Kliban for February 01, 2021

I think he’s frozen his mind as well as his butt.

So many blocks he built an igloo.

What a beautiful image. I’ve got chills.

But wait. “Into a bin full of endive”. There, now it’s perfect.

A two story igloo

They do say write what you know.

Inuit authors must do okay …

Ah, the incomprehensibly bizarre mind of Kliban!

OOOH a split level igloo, Cool

I’m all for suspension of disbelief but those aren’t even fingerless gloves. :)

He is using failed pages to wrap fish. Several days from now, he will be reading one while preparing dinner and liking it after all.

Smilla’s Sense of Snow – the first draft.

“It was a dark and snowy night…”

Like the 2 story igloo with entrances on both levels.

No? I thought it was perfect!

Is this what anthropologists mean when they say Eskimos have a hundred different words for snow?

Probably iceberg lettuce.

…antenna, or eagle roost?

The snow came down as softly as chicken feathers after a coyote got into the hen house.

Similes are a reflection of the utterers’ cultural perspective. When Steve Allen fed an elephant a bunch of grapes by placing them in its open mouth, he was asked what that felt like. His reply: “like sticking your hand into a suitcase full of wet liver”.

Owl salad?