Word: metaphoric
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...creates his black-and-white images with scratchboard, literally carving out the surface to reveal the color underneath. Besides being a nice metaphor for a dream comic, it gives the lines a rough, lithographic look. Max also likes to mix it up, at one point switching to a smoother, cartoony brush style when D finds himself dreaming within the extended dream. He also plays with layouts, altering the size and shape of the panels enough to keep things interesting but always readable...
...They kiss and touch one another - Chinatsu shows the uninitiated Kyoko how to masturbate - but the latter recoils from physical love. A stronger movie would have started where this one leaves off, but it's a compact, spare tale shot in night-blue tones, which may ultimately be a metaphor for Japan's listless youth rather than a vigorous statement on sexual identity...
...Fragments speak in an eerily contemporary voice. Heraclitus anticipated Einstein's theory that energy is the essence of matter: "All things change to fire,/and fire exhausted/falls back into things." The metaphor of Heraclitean fire posits an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/and warmth soon cools./So moisture dries,/and dry things drown." And "The earth is melted/into the sea/by that same reckoning/whereby the sea/ sinks into the earth...
...much as besting the British at their own game became an expression of cultural pride and national assertiveness for the colonized nations, cricket also indelibly inscribed its values on them as a metaphor for the proper conduct of human affairs. "Just not cricket" is an expression common throughout the former British empire to describe behavior that is beyond the pale...
...unlike entering a bar: pleasantries exchanged at the door, identification checked, then the coast is clear and the real business (of providing your daily metaphor) can begin. The Crimson's decision to insert pictures of the editorial writers is, it seems, not simply of human or visual interest. It's a brilliant reminder of the fundamental social contract into which we have entered as writers of opinion, that is to say, facts skewed, perhaps beyond recognition--an anonymity checked by our (newly enlarged) photographs...