Animal · Class

polypus in the torn-hands simile

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Canonical name: polypus in the torn-hands simile
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Animal
Scope: Class
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

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Claims

·Simile

A plucked polypus has its suckers torn from its bed with stones clinging to them, imaging the rocks stripping skin from Ulysses’s hands.

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“tearing his hands as the suckers of a polypus are torn when some one plucks it from its bed, and the stones come up along with it—even so did the rocks tear the skin from his strong hands”

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·Simile

“as the suckers of a polypus are torn when some one plucks it from its bed”