Salad bowl (was Re: The Finger (1947?))

[ANNE V. GILBERT]

Ellen:

Bouquets of flowers and orchestras are nice, but I still kinda like the
"patchwork quilt" metaphor.  Too bad it never caught on.
Anne G

> was reading in the newest Nat'l Geographic last night about the New Europe
and the metaphors people were using were
>
> a bouquet of flowers (the tulips are still tulips) and
> an orchestra (the violins are still violins)
>
> seemed much more appealing to me than the salad bowl metaphor for some
reason.  Ellen