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... Metaphor . Signs and symp- toms . Mapping on to different coordinate systems , I don't know ... " There is ... metaphor is Leni Pökler's . She invented it in the quiet darkness of her bedroom to tell her husband what world she had seen ...
... Metaphor . Signs and symp- toms . Mapping on to different coordinate systems , I don't know ... " There is ... metaphor is Leni Pökler's . She invented it in the quiet darkness of her bedroom to tell her husband what world she had seen ...
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... metaphor as a compromise between the extremes of decadence , chaos , and noise on the one hand , and structure , order , and predetermined form on the other . Metaphor permits the use of intelligible forms without the obligation to ...
... metaphor as a compromise between the extremes of decadence , chaos , and noise on the one hand , and structure , order , and predetermined form on the other . Metaphor permits the use of intelligible forms without the obligation to ...
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... metaphor , a delirium tremens , a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare . The saint whose water can light lamps , the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God , the true paranoid for whom all is organized in ...
... metaphor , a delirium tremens , a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare . The saint whose water can light lamps , the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God , the true paranoid for whom all is organized in ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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