03-29-2017, 08:32 AM
I don't find the ending convincing. For one, there's coloured chalk and some of it can be purple or a dark shade of soemthing. Secondly, ash (as opposed to unburnt carbon or carbonaceous char) is white. Clean ash is white. Coal ash is white - Japanese cement companies buy white fly ash from coal PP and reject carbon contaminated ash. The most common constituents of ash are Fe and Al silicates.
So while it might seem pedantic, I'm not convinced by metaphor in a literal and therefore in a figurative way.
So while it might seem pedantic, I'm not convinced by metaphor in a literal and therefore in a figurative way.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe