His smile would linger as he arranged his bottles, typed up labels. Denise’s nature attached itself to his as easily as aspirin attached itself to the enzyme COX-2; Henry moved through his day pain free
This is a bold metaphor, because not many people know
how the active ingredient of aspirin works. By contrast, if you use good
similes, you can give us the feeling of reminding more than discovering something unknown.
The enzyme COX-2 allows the
appearance of pain and inflammation and aspirin inhibits them.
Henry manages to pass the day without pain at the expense of his own
personality, which ends inhibited, and I´m not sure that this is what the
author wants to mean
Anyway, it´s great to see that someone takes the risk of using this daring
metaphor
I´m also going to use this post to recommend this novel about the wanderings
of a dull teacher of Maths ( redundancy?) of which there is a TV series that I
haven´t seen yet
