"So trying to work out governance is quite difficult, and no analogy quite fits."

No, the analogy doesn't fit in every respect.

I leave it to the reader where the analogy between Rothko and Warhol fits best.

The analogy doesn't fit.

Certainly, the analogy fits almost everything he wrote, whatever the style (and there were many), but his music's customary slow andante may have come from a deeper inkling into how we listen.

Mr. Keynes's analogy fits the Alice-in-Wonderland world that Mr. Shiller of Yale calls home to many investors.

Margarida's analogy of a snake fitted him perfectly.

But more often than not the analogies fit.

He says the analogy with Manchester United - on the pressure to achieve and secure exclusives - fits at the Sun, but is careful not to demean the Express.

But neither analogy exactly fits Kosovo, and seeing beyond them is essential if the country is to make a searching examination of the proper course to follow in Yugoslavia.