"You're naming all the things I love best about him. You'll compose an incredible toast someday," Claudius says, and all these wedding thoughts do warm him. "Metonymy is when something associated with a concept is used to refer that concept as a whole . When I say I represented the crown of Denmark abroad, for example, I mean I represented the royal family and their interests. Crowns are really only used for coronations and ceremonial events, anyway, and have no interests to speak of. But the association's strong enough that one can stand for the other -- an ornate piece of headwear for the power the ceremony grants." That said, Claudius would've liked to have worn the crown at least once. "Galahad's eyes are one of the things I love about him. They're so beautifully clear. But I might be speaking of his eye as an artist, and mean what he focuses on in his sketches, the devoted care in each pencil stroke that show how long and how patiently he looked at his subject and recreated the most precious details. Or, in this instance, I speak of his eyes that never look away, and I mean the way he focuses on people and makes them feel heard. There are so many things he does." And Claudius is absurdly in love with him.
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