January 2012
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Last night I dreamt that I had died.
But I could see, or rather feel, what was going on around me. … I felt I had no strength or will, I was only capable of witnessing my own death, my own corpse. Above all, I could feel in my dream something long forgotten, something that had not happened to me for a long time - the feeling that it was not a dream but real. It is such a powerful sensation...
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
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Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish - a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary,...
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