Word: metaphor
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...horn plugged into his typewriter. The novel bounces, gyrates and bucks like another coaster car along the precarious edge of the reader's tolerance, never quite falling off. For whenever the author leans too far in the direction of obscenity-which is frequently--he bounces right back with a metaphor or reference to feed any appetite Jackie Kennedy and James Joyce. Cyrano de Bergerac and the Berrigan Brothers. While Mays and Richard Wagner all raise their heads at one point of another in the parenthetical Who's Who that attends this narrative...
...because the cameras needed to pan all 360 degrees of perimeter, and it was emential to give a sense of the central couple's positions on the floor. Pollack won an Academy Award nomination, not just for his technical solution, which helped to turn the contest into a convincing metaphor for the world which has tricked and beaten the heroine--but for helping bring out Jane Fenda's bitter performance and turning Gig Young into a genial but finally heartless...
...modern times, much of mainstream Protestant scholarship has virtually dismissed the idea of a real Second Coming, preferring to view the apocalyptic literature as a metaphor, a prefiguring of an eventual victory of Christ's redemptive power over the forces of evil. Roman Catholicism, in whose theology the Second Coming is known as Parousia, generally tends to accept the ancient creedal statements at face value but in interpretation holds a multitude of views, ranging from the transcendent visions of Teilhard de Chardin to literal belief in the final terrors...
...Changing Room is Storey's most powerful and moving drama, it is because he has found in sport his purest metaphor for the war of existence. The characters are a semi-pro English north country rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field...
...follows, then, that science is valuable to the reader only as myth, as a metaphor which mirrors the relations drawn in literature between our own experience and its intelligible representation. That Sir Thomas Browne is now studied in universities as a specimen of English 17th century prose doesn't concern the reader, who turns to Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the same spirit that he turns to Wittgenstein or Levi-Strauss: to collect what could be called "taxonomies of natural phenomena." Nostalgia, the sad evocation of our universal angst, episodes which recall a decisive moment in our lives, ontological dread before...