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“Mixed metaphors with two source domains that don’t make sense together, […] are the structures that most deserve the name ‘mixed metaphors’.”

Book:Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse

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“US Highway 1. A gray snake of concrete writhed past her. The Oceanrest exit let off onto an artery road, two lanes on either side of a double yellow line, a dying pulse bloodletting into the sea. Before the iron lung economy, there’d been a trailer park by the highway, and an ice cream shop, and a very large church. Their razed bodies curled in shallow graves, their bones hidden in underbrush. A monster licked the skulls empty, scavenged the flesh.”

Vision History Metaphor Creepy Time Passing

Book:The War Beneath

Source: The War Beneath

“She pushed herself through the opening, around an ornament that was simultaneously a hanging light bulb and a uvula, and stepped inside. She entered the Mouth, the Throne Room, the Jaws of the Devouring God, or maybe just another in a series of countless double-wides gutted and lashed together with scavenged steel and magic, the bare skeleton of an illusory power. Tongue. The Devourer. God, the Devil, or nobody at all.”

Vision Magic Metaphor Surreal Dark Fantasy Occult Dark Fantasy Horror

Book:The War Beneath

Source: The War Beneath

“The impact of our choices may reach further than we will ever know.”

Life Lessons Impacting The World Choice And Consequence

Author:Mariann Edgar Budde

“...: through witty riddles and unsuspected metaphors, though ti tells us things differently to the way they are, as if it were lying, it actually obliges us to examine them more closely, and it makes us say: Ah, this is just as things are, and I dint know it.”

Metaphor Wit Meaning Aristotle

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Is there more meat?” I asked. Ida Belle nodded. “I’m pretty sure there’s a black hole in the bottom of Gertie’s trunk and meat is coming through it from another planet. We’ve hardly made a dent.”

Metaphor Humorous Quotes

Book:Hurricane Force

Source: Hurricane Force

“We might think of metaphor as a device belonging to the poetry of words but metaphor can also be non-verbal – visual, spatial, experiential… Metaphor is essential to the poetry of architecture too.”

Poetry Metaphor Architecture

Book:Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

“…metaphors in architecture are generally thought of not as treacherous sources of delusion but as (to use an architectural metaphor) cornerstones of creativity.”

Creativity Metaphor Architecture

Book:Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

“In a creative activity such as architecture, metaphor is less a threat to objective truth and more (to use another architectural metaphor) an arena of conceptual vitality – an arena being a performance area shareable with others.”

Creative Metaphor Architecture Arena

Book:Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

“The metaphors of architecture are protean ghosts haunting a many roomed labyrinth. They morph and fuse, subtly mutating perceptions; like distorting glass. When you look more closely you realise that the labyrinth of architectural ideology is ruled by those protean ghosts.”

Metaphor Architecture Ghosts

Book:Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

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