And they're not analogies (this is to this as that is to that), which illustrate parallel relationships; they're similes (this is like that).

Ted, just so you feel better -- I bought a nice hardcover copy of The Canterbury Tales not too long ago and have been reading a story now and then just for fun. But the news about that library is just nauseating.

How can you include fashion items like zoot suits, pointy bras and Bermuda shorts (yawn) and omit bell bottoms, railroad pants, paisley mania, Carnaby shirts, dayglo everything (in the '70s I had a dayglo orange raincoat with smiley face buttons), the wet look, crushed vinyl, Capri pants, pedal pushers, platform shoes, Nehru jackets, the Mary Quant hat, love beads, granny glasses, macrame, granny squares, fringed jackets, moccasins, sandals, those little white Courrege boots, white lipstick, Twiggy lashes (painted on), the Cher line (eyeshadow trick), teased up hair, ironed hair, Cuban heel boots, and irridescent suits?