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The story is about the delight we take in metaphor. A meaning spins, remaining upright on an axis of normalcy aligned with the conventions of connotation and denotation, and yet: to spin is not normal, and to dissemble normal uprightness by
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“But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.”
― Letters of William Cowper: Chosen and Edited with a Memoir and a Few Notes
― Letters of William Cowper: Chosen and Edited with a Memoir and a Few Notes
“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”
― Les Miserables
― Les Miserables
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”
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“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
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