Great topic, Janice. I'll be back to this thread but for now I'll just say that I'm fond of thinking of the topic along the lines of Baudelaire in his famous poem "Correspondences." What did the postman say to the Neruda character in that film Il postino? "Everything is a metaphor for everything else" (or something like that). And how the mother of the girl he was writing love poems for was terrified by the power of metaphor over her daughter. That's the kind of metaphor that is definitely not dead.
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