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metaphor

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

Interesting bunch of links about metaphor, the mind-body connection and science over at metafilter.

A short history of metaphor.

Silly metaphors & analogies.

And finally, the very best poem ever written about metaphor: Very Like a Whale by Ogden Nash.

Posted on October 27, 2008 by joanne Posted in Nonsense, Poetry Tagged metaphor, ogden nash 2 Comments
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