Word: metaphores
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What does all this tell us about the mind? "What you're seeing here is a window into thought itself," says Ramachandran, who is slated to speak at the Princeton meeting. "It also gives us an experimental handle to investigate the neural basis of more elusive phenomena like metaphor." It's a fair bet, he argues, that synesthesia is caused by genetic mutations that create dense neural connections between areas of the brain that process sensory information. Ramachandran hypothesizes that in normal brains, a handful of these links might play a role in the formulation of metaphors, which often blend...
...novels, to Western eyes, are more a series of beautiful tableaux than novels - too precious by half. His greatest works like Snow Country and House of Sleeping Beauties are haunting; more than any other Japanese author, Kawabata satisfies our appetite for strangeness and exoticism. Kawabata himself created a striking metaphor of cross-cultural fascination in the protagonist of Snow Country, who was devoted to the study of Western ballet although he'd never once attended a performance...
...heart, Driven is a well-intentioned attempt to use racing as a metaphor for life. There are no simple answers in this movie; the ‘hero’ doesn’t get the girl, the aged former star doesn’t win the race. And even when Bly finally achieves victory, Tanto takes the opportunity to remind him that “it doesn’t last.” No good guys or bad guys need apply; the goal is not to beat the other guy, but to beat oneself...
...Such a statement is as fitting a metaphor for the way the Harvard women's lacrosse team's season has gone as it is an appropriate picture of the squad's disappointing 15-12 loss to New Hampshire last night...
...Love, a progressive-politics daydream, a lifestyle as a wine-and-foodie, any number of competing but interlocking visions of the '60s and '70s." But, he adds, "that narrative is over, and San Francisco doesn't have a new story to tell about itself. It doesn't have a metaphor to embrace its new identity...