Tag: metaphor
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Booz’s Sheaf
My dear, my dearest, how many pebbles is it since I have had the apprentice to sugar you? Alas, my dear, answers the other, I myself have been extremely unvitreous, my three littlest oil-cakes, etc. Jacques Lacan, quoting Jean Tardieu, Seminar III, 257-81 In my previous blog post, I talked about one of philosophy’s greatest metaphors, Hegel’s “the…
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Spirit is a Bone
But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. Aristotle, Poetics, 1459a7-10, tr. by S.H. Butcher. One of the things I have been most perplexed by is the…
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