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“They were coming back to his mother's neighborhood now, the eastern boundary of which was a bridge spanning a know of train tracks that cut through the city like a zipper.”

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“Is that true," I asked, "that song?" "It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth." "And the end of the mechanical age," I said, "is that a metaphor?" "The end of the mechanical age," said Mrs. Davis, "is in my judgment an actuality straining to become a metaphor. One must wish it luck, I suppose. One must cheer it on. Intellectual rigor demands that we give these damned metaphors every chance, even if they are inimical to personal well-being and comfort. We have a duty to understand everything, whether we like it or not–a duty I would scant if I could." At that moment the water jumped into the boat and sank us.”

Metaphor

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the thrill of rapids, never comprehending your utter lack of control, your constant peril.”

Youth Metaphor Peril

Book:The Turncoat's Gambit

Source: The Turncoat's Gambit

“Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese”

Metaphor To Think About

Book:Who Moved My Cheese?

Source: Who Moved My Cheese?

“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”

Self Help Metaphor

Book:Who Moved My Cheese?

Source: Who Moved My Cheese?

“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know.”

Wisdom Metaphor Knowledge As Identification

Book:The Educated Imagination

Source: The Educated Imagination

“...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.”

Feminism Metaphor Mansplaining

Book:Men Explain Things to Me

Source: Men Explain Things to Me

“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically literate democracy, and even suggests a statement of purpose for it (a surprisingly elusive principle in higher education today). The goal of education is to make up for the shortcomings in our instinctive ways of thinking about the physical and social world. And education is likely to succeed not by trying to implant abstract statements in empty minds but by taking the mental models that are our standard equipment, applying them to new subjects in selective analogies, and assembling them into new and more sophisticated combinations.”

Language Education Learning Metaphor Thought Educational Philosophy Thought Process Analogy

Book:The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

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