No, no! "Life is like a metaphor!"
NO, "Life is a simile"
No, WAIT! "Life is a metaphor, but LIKE a simile"
Or so we "figure".
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
life is such a scream!
This is how the surrealists probably got started, you know!
- Steve
Metaphors are like painting a green car red.
Or, like a shoe having it's sole condemned to perdition.
Or, like a musician experiencing rough sax.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Nicholas
Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Glen
said (I think it was glen)
"It's just like folding a piece of paper. Someone hands you a piece of
paper and you fold it into an origami swan. Did you _discover_ the
swan? Or did you invent the swan?"
And Nick replies ...
You all know by now how I feel about metaphors. Nick thinks being
serious
about metaphors is REALLY IMPORTANT <==rude shouting!
So, when I say what I am about to say, I am not just nit-picking. I
hope.
Isnt the metaphor backwards? Given the uniqueness of the solution,
isnt it
more like you had been handed the swan and "discovered" that it was
just a
square piece of paper?
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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