Oh gee, sis!

A quick post just to have something up, here. The figure for the last two posts was Auxesis, Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force:

First it chowed my extra reading, then it gobbled up my evening relaxation, then it swallowed my sleeping hours, and now it is eating my blog.

First they said that cats are machines, then they undertook to build machines like the cat, then they thought to build machines better than the cat, and finally they flew to the moon.

I am quite at a loss for a mnemonic image on this one. Any immediate thoughts?