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Hanson explained the metaphor by saying, “In the same way that fish were not built for flying, law and economics was not built to reach progressive conclusions...
...time for learning tolerance, for having our preconceived notions challenged. That’s why Harvard works so hard to micromanage diversity, using randomization and blocking groups to socially engineer the student body, while relying on affirmative action to maintain the perfect mosaic, or tapestry, or whatever metaphor happens to be in fashion...
...constant return to a place of self-searching and inspiration. In “The Painter,” we again see Ashbery’s paradigmatic enterprise. The painter returns again and again to the sea for inspiration, emphasizing the changeableness of the sea as a metaphor for his art: “My soul, when I paint this next portrait / Let it be you who wrecks the canvas.” But in the end it is the process of “coming back” to the original germ of inspiration, of perpetual growth and regeneration...
...indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from all the codes of humanity, chatting as they roam, roaring as they kill. Fire and sword is not a metaphor in my India...
...Road. “Oh man,” Dean says to Sal in his lyrical way, sitting in a bar and observing the world around him, “Dig the street of life.” Dean’s verbal wonderment captures not only the central metaphor of the work, but the hope for beatnik happiness amid a world of inescapable restrictions...