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A Discussion of Metaphor

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

CHAPTER

The Language Machine Is Like a Parasite

Heron stone is a gentleman that Brian and I are friends with. He's especially interested in metaphor he thinks it's key but really he's looking at what he calls the language machine like he focuses on the way that language shapes us. So after talking to him on a number of occasions, he says you know what is the truth, what is the solution always pointing out that once he actually starts paying attention to what the word the means, then suddenly you're noticing that there's like a whole bunch of implicit assumptions that are highly problematic That we really usually take for granted.

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