Known converses with unknown
Metaphor is a conversation between what is known and what is partially known, to the end that we might question, learn, and extend our world. Our life.
:- Doug.
Archive for September 15th, 2022
What’s “in” mean?
What does it mean to be in conversation? It conversation a container? And nothing more? Lawyers, Doctors, and other professionals are in practice, but does it mean more: they are engaged by the Work? It there something for instance that they each—person, profession, conversation—get and give the other? And more than that? And less?
:- Doug.
As unlike as can be imaged
So far—what’s next?—I’ve noticed two ways to metaphor. The first is the most usual: finding things which share characteristics: a slippery thought is a greased piglet. The second is finding things as unlike as can be imaged: a slippery thought is a pre-school class on the first day.
:- Doug.
Ice floes
Many times I read a writer and think I have found the key. “We have a history from which we need to recover.” “We need to pay attention to what’s around us.” Ever I find another big picture and way through. Next week a new book, a new idea, a new whole to fit my burgeoning thinking. There is no solid ground, it is all ice floating in a moving river. We take our stand. These floes our human “solidity.”
:- Doug.
