> the hallowed automobile temple, like a phylactery to the Saints of petroleum refinery Ha, I'd say this is a completely mixed metaphor, except it is a simile.

> the hallowed automobile temple, like a phylactery to the Saints of petroleum refinery Ha, I'd say this is a completely mixed metaphor, except it is a simile... Phylacteries are used by Jewish men, and contain verses of the Torah inside, which are worn on the head and the arm (following a literal interpretation of "bind these words to your forehead and to your arms"). Jews do not have "saints", they have "tzadikim" (righteous ones). Christian saints, on the other hand, are either venerated with an ikon (an image of the saint) or through a relic (generally a bone of the saint) housed in a reliquary. Although a reliquary is way too small for a garage, so maybe a chapel which houses the reliquary. A "shrine" may also house a reliquary, I'm not sure, I tend to think of "shrine" as being to a non-monotheistic god. Generally Christian houses of worship are not "temples", except for some Pentecostally churches in the 1960s, and Jews only have a "Temple", which would be in Jerusalem if there were one. "like a shrine to the petroleum industry" would be