Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts
Friday, July 15, 2022

On the Margins--a Metaphor

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 Behind our townhouse there's a strip of lawn at the foot of a sloping bank up to a strip of the woods which remain from the original la...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Cars and Pedestrians--A Metaphor IV

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 I want to push the metaphor comparing drivers and pedestrians to those entrapped in our racial web. the norms and rules for driving a car...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Cars and Pedestrians--A Metaphor III

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 My second  continuation : The points I made  in my previous post :What's going on?   binary--cars versus walkers power--cars have more ...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Cars and Pedestrians--A Metaphor II

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 A continuation from yesterday: What's going on?   there's a good binary separation going on: I'm either a driver in a car, or ...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Cars and Pedestrians--a Metaphor-I

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 When I cross Reston Parkway on the way to and from my garden, I now use the button for pedestrian crossing.  (I used to jaywalk because it ...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

"A Cage of My Circumstances"

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 That's a phrase from Zadie Smith's recent book of essays . She's using it in the context of her body, a female black body. I l...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

More Metaphors--Wet Wood and Poison

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 I posted earlier on nuclear reactions as a metaphor possibly explaining the rise in murders recently.  The key point is the reactivity--w...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Metaphor--Society, Nuclear Reactors, and Pandemic

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  Long discussion in Post of the possible causes for increase in murders this year in America (not occurring elsewhere if article is right)...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Cancel Culture Changing--Metaphor

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 Yesterday I wrote on what I see as changes through our/my history of what is "canceled" and what is not. I've a metaphor:  Th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Metaphors Again

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I loved this metaphor in Gerson's column in the Post today. Trump unfiltered is like a badly polluted canal. The scraps of narcissism...