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Ep. 124: World in the Mind

Young Heretics

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The Most Conspicuous Point of Contact Between Meaning and Poetry Is Metaphor

The most conspicuous point of contact between meaning and poetry is metaphor. If we trace the meanings of a great many words, about as far back as etymology can take us, we are at once made to realize that an overwhelming proportion referred, in earlier days, to one of these two things,. A solid, sensible object or some animal, probably human activity. And so people have been rediscovering barfield through that, in some ways.

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