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Ihor Ševčenko once said that some historians, in their compulsion to ponder the same questions repeatedly, were like mindless dogs who urinated on the same tree in a forest—leaving other trees unexplored for no specific reason. But according to one colleague, this metaphor??called Ševčenko's law—did not apply to Ševčenko himself, who never sought to follow just one trail, both as a historian...
...those shoots that do break through to the open air will soon find that the warmth will never touch them? They will give up, and wither, and die. Such a garden would soon be only of use or interest to ourselves, because therein we should recognize and acknowledge a metaphor??”“Don’t speak,” Felicity interrupted. She impaled her crumpet with a fork.The dispute continued, neither of the two particularly invested in its outcome, and both of them unwilling to stand up and go inside...
...Whenever I stumble upon one of these gems, I’m reminded of that Billy Collins poem, “Marginalia,” describing the selfsame phenomenon: “One scrawls ‘Metaphor?? next to a stanza of Eliot’s. / Another notes the presence of ‘Irony’ / Fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal...
...metaphor in language to convey abstract thought. Do you think the fact that we must make abstract things concrete is an impressive trait of the brain or the result of a deficit?SP: I think it’s an impressive trait. I think we do it through cognitive metaphor??that is through recognizing the similarity between a novel abstract thought and a known concrete idea and transferring one known structure to the other.4. FM: My high school English teachers always hated it when I used the word “stuff” but you just...
Laurence H. Tribe ’62 once wrote that constitutional law’s “accumulated lines of thought and argument are indeed tantamount—however familiar the metaphor??to the threads of a complex tapestry.” The Harvard Law professor is now taking constitution-as-art one step further with a book that uses his own artwork to explain the nation’s founding charter...