“The word ‘wrong’ originally meant wrung, twisted. ‘Abstract’ means to pull away from. ‘Human’ meant the soil (humus). ‘Consider’ meant known, con, the stars, sidera. All our abstract words were once metaphors. The boldness of metaphor is a result of limited vocabulary… As language became less crude it became less beautiful, more refined, more abstract—and metaphor became either impossible or ornamental and unnecessary, except in rare instances.”