Bringing two different things together with an explicit word, such as "like," "just as," or "seems." Unlike the metaphor, the comparison makes it plain that there are two things.
In One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Man takes himself too as matter, and builds himself, yes indeed, like a house.
"Like a house" brings two different things together with an explicit word: the man and the construction. The comparison sums up the chapter and applies to the self the same masonry work the text had been showing in the mountain.
Five imbeciles. One in each. Five imbeciles standing before you, as you see them from outside, in me, who am one and five like the house.
Or rather, this horror: the consciousness of madness, fresh and clear, gentlemen, fresh and clear as an April morning, and lucid and precise as a mirror.
Book IV: The first experiment, Vitangelo Moscarda, on what the first experiment would give him
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