Or rather I've been doing my best to avoid it. The fun thing about scicomm is you can come up with all sorts of visual metaphors so that you don't have to draw something over and over 😬 This first page is so crowd dense though 😭
"I know it's not stylistically accurate to have added a bridge to a Dickinson poem, but see, it's the previous poem in the fascicle, which leads me to believe she intended the juxtaposition and likely even implies they're metaphors for the same—" "OK, have the rights! Just please take one breath."
Also, I like discussing movies with kids. We talked about metaphors and stories. We talked about sometimes you have to get through a scary or sad bit to have the good parts. Abby would ask questions that led to interesting discussion. Like, "What's a culture?" and why people do some things.
Maybe it's less an addiction and more of a taste test. Ya play 'em a few times. Shelve them. Then regard them as old friends waiting to have a chat again someday. Wait, I think I mixed my metaphors and came out with cannibalism by mistake. Perhaps addiction is a better way to look at it.
Trump, Monsieur Of Metaphors, Paints Mosaic Of Experimental Erudition
Yes. Big yes. I think folks are stuck in the 80s movie "fight to save our rec center from the bad developer" mindset. But we lost that fight. The nazi bought the bar (mixing metaphors) & will keep hanging SS banners no matter how many we tear down. You've got to cut your losses when it's futile.
RIP Lore Segal. There are some metaphors in Lucinella that have been part of my mental lexicon ever since I read it; if you don't know it, pick it up
One of thousands of Jewish children transported to England at the dawn of World War II, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in novel-memoirs like “Other People’s Houses.”
Eels' slipperiness is the basis for the some of our oldest eel metaphors. In the 5th C. BCE, the Greek poet Simonides wrote that a slippery character -- say, like, a politician who is running for office to avoid prison -- is “like an eel down in the slime." And that's bad. 🗃️🧪
This week in dark scientific discoveries, @dresdencodak.bsky.social shows us that Kim Ross has encountered people who use metaphors, but thinks they're all cowards.
I wish my writing were more flowery and poetic. When I was a kid I used to be able to write descriptions and metaphors in such a poetic way. Now I just can't think, I'm blunt or nothing. I don't know how to get that back at all. I feel like I'm losing myself with every year I get older...