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“Metaphor: «Al arrullo de truenos de famélico instinto, ajeno sois al remordimiento, imberbe avechucho, ¿tan exento andáis de cuitas que trocáis tiempo por sobrado amor?» Answer: Es un cuestionamiento de la naturaleza del amor y de la madurez. Sugiere que el amor puede ser una fuerza poderosa que puede llevar a la gente a tomar decisiones imprudentes. La cita puede interpretarse como una crítica a la inmadurez del joven amante.”

“But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so. That is internationally and universally applicable. What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal master and mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All Loose-Fish.”

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume of organized information to be fed in. The success of a metaphor is a function of the sociocultural format of the interpreting subjects; encyclopedia. In this perspective, metaphors are produced solely on the basis of a rich cultural framework, on the basis, that is, of a universe of content that is already organized into networks of interpretation, which decide semiotically) the identities and differences of properties.”