Sublime

Venantius was so interested in the problems of comedy; in fact, fables of this sort can also be considered kin to the comedies of the ancients. Both tell not of men who really existed, as tragedies do; on the contrary, as Isidore says, they are fictions:

When we ask, “What does (any word) mean?” We are trying to understand the relationship between the assemblage of letters or mouth-sounds, and what they signify. The same is true of metaphors: meaning is revealed by discovering the connection between two different ideas.

who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.’

When we want to talk about the content of an argument, we use the structurally complex metaphor AN ARGUMENT IS A CONTAINER.

Working with grounded, complex metaphors that have integrity is the difference between decoration and art, tunes and music, commercialized fetishes and authentic cultural practice.

Dying Metaphors.