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The people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.
~Lakoff & Johnson
The Hatred of Metaphor
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Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Giles Hutchins • The Need For Metaphor: A Shift from Machine to Nature
Metaphor, today as in the ancient Greek metapherein, refers to reversible passages that connect two realms and preserve similitude between them; on the other hand, metabolism, from metaballein, refers to abrupt and radical changes that fundamentally efface, digest, or absorb all traces of an earlier state.
-Shane Denson, Crazy Cameras
paragon : the perfect example of something.
slipshod (adj) : a sloppy lack of precision.
concordance : an alphabetical list of all usages of a word in a corpus.
presumptuous : taking liberties and overstepping boundaries with assumpitons.
‘People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’