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[proximoception]

Finding the right metaphor for metaphors requires ... a lot of other metaphors, since who they're used by and for what purpose and to what effect are necessary context, sans which the chosen metaphor-metaphor will fall back into mere vesselhood, thinghood. And all those other elements must also be metaphors, or how else would they plausibly

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[nightspore]

Lovely.

Hence the odd simile, right? "Like Michelangelo's statue...."

[proximoception]

A simile is like a metaphor that is a simile.

[nightspore]

Yeah I walked right into that one!

[proximoception]

In Soviet parable, intricate evasions of assholes walk into you!

Well, by assholes.