so i didn't think we had to post it in a blog since we were doing it in class together, so here it is...
In the excerpt from Nicholas Baker's The Merranine, his slightly elevated, intricately formal diction dipicts cold metaphoric language. Baker describes the escalators he is on as "a pair of integral signs swooping upward between the two floors". This clinical dipiction of the moving stairs suggests a businesslike mood. From what he is carrying to the structures he is upon, he describes in great detail the surroundings.
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