I don't want my last view of you to be waving your fists and shouting, red-faced, some of the boneheaded things you have asserted in your recent emails. And if Icebergs echo, do you really want those same utterances coming back at you.
Nick -
I love the image of you shaking your tiny fist at the many shaking their tiny fists at you as you float off into the melting arctic on a large chunk of ice-floe...
As you must know... I'm a fan of all figurative speech, with metaphor as the term we often use loosely for all of it. I am more fascinated with it as "epistemic scaffolding" for expanding/growing/building one's (individual/community) (shared) understanding of "life, the universe and everything".
Where I might share any disdain for the use of metaphor it is where (as asserted in a recent post by myself) a specific use of a metaphor as a compression of convenience for expression is conflated with it's use as an exploratory tool (epistemic scaffold), or as a means of "signaling insiderness" (reduced to jargon).
I hope to ride of on your ice-floe with you shaking *my* tiny fist at the philistines if I must!
- Steve
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