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Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not...
Author:
Kim Stanley Robinson
Book:
Aurora
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Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things.
( Kim Stanley Robinson )
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