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Metaphors
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Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
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― Seraphina
― Seraphina
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Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his arrival in Berkeley, took a seminar on metaphor from one of us. Among the wondrous things that he found in Berkeley was an expression that he heard over and over and understood as a beautifully sane metaphor. The expression was “the solution of my problems”—which he took to be a large volume of liquid, bubbling and smoking, containing all of your problems, either dissolve
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― Metaphors We Live By
― Metaphors We Live By
