Sublime

We have discussed how keywords lead to governing metaphors (“metaphors we live by”) and how those metaphors do a tremendous amount of underground work, directing our responses to others in ways that we’re often unaware of.

similarities that we perceive are a result of conventional metaphors that are part of our conceptual system.

Your task is to start noticing metaphors and working on the creation of original metaphors.

“I don’t want to be a simile anymore,” I said. “I want to be a metaphor.”

Meister Eckhart was both a brilliant speculative theologian and a majestically gifted writer. He was also given to expressing his more difficult ideas in almost willfully audacious language.

Everything in Language is a truth claim. So they need the similes to compare things to, to make true things that aren’t there yet, that they need to say. It might not be that they can think of it: maybe Language just demands it.

metaphorical concepts can be extended beyond the range of ordinary literal ways of thinking and talking

rhetor doing the work of a philosopher.” It might be more accurate to say that he was a critic doing the work of a prophet.