Houyhnhnms and Yahoos

photo: Gage Skidmore

Rain, reign and rein are homonyms. Egregious and blatant are synonyms. If you're looking for an oxymoron, antonyms often qualify. Reverse Midas touch is an oxymoronic use of antonyms. "Good bad" is one. "Pretty funny," "seriously funny" and "awfully good" are examples. The White House for the presidency, however seriously compromised the structure might be by the destruction of the East Wing, is an example of another figure of speech, metonymy, in which you use an associated thing. Synecdoche, the part for the whole, is exemplified by an expression like "all hands on deck."  Let peace "rain" is a poetic use of the homonym which, by the way, has nothing to do with Gulliver's rational Houyhynhyms or their bombastic all too humanYahoos. What about a race of words? Have you ever been in a room with someone whose nonstop talking has obviously been devised to stop them from having to listen to their thoughts?

read "Double Exposure" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

read The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy

and read The Wormhole Society: The Graphic Novel by Francis Levy and Joseph Silver

and watch Wisconsin's "Jump Around"