(Since that last post) the whole world has turned into a barrage of metaphors drawn from science. I'm almost wishing I hadn't tuned myself to that channel - lousy metaphor alert - but observation has convinced me that in most cases, it's just people grasping for words that might solve intractable problems of description. For which they cannot be ( Read more... )

Something which has been on my mind lately is the question of whether it's in good taste to exploit the poetic potential of scientific and mathematical theories and terminology for some goal within a non-scientific domain, for example as an illustrative or complementary metaphor in a work of fiction, or as a descriptive basis for some idea in ( Read more... )