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“Metaphor shakes our bearings on the question of how we stand in relation to 'objective reality', and a metaphor inside a metaphor unfixes those bearings altogether; it makes us lose our direction-fix on the position of what is 'out there' in 'reality' and the position of our own consciousness of that.”

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