On 7/26/2012 6:18 PM, LAR wrote:
Seems to me, that as dialogue - you may be correct. Not sure when such
terms were introduced. As a narrative however it would be geared to the
reading audience, not the setting.
Larry
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Nat Russo <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was writing earlier today and realized I may have been guilty of
anachronism. If you are writing about a pre-industrial society,
would it be anachronism to use "...ate away at him like a cancer" as
a metaphor?
A pre-industrial society knows nothing of "cancer", right? Well,
*my* pre-industrial society doesn't, I should say.
Just one of those curious tidbits that's likely to...well....eat
away at me like a cancer. /wink /nudge #seewhatIdidthere
Nat
Depends on the society. Remember that in 1776 they knew at least one
form of Cancer, and called it that - "the Cancer".
cd
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