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(The first show, under way before the new leadership, was "Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art," in 2007. The third, "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa," is to open next spring).

THOUGH at first it may seem overloaded with symbol and metaphor, in the long run the prolific Canadian writer Timothy Findley's dense, ambitious new novel carries its weight easily.

I would like to think I was doing that – not as a lack of discipline but as a level of spontaneity, where the self-censorship in what you're doing is overridden by some kind of inner truth, in terms of rhythm and metaphor, in the way that the prose is delivered.

They covered the full range of the narrative and metaphor in the Christian Bible, from the fall of Lucifer to the Last Judgement.

Sensitive people often pick up on the little things in the environment that others miss, see patterns where others see randomness, and find meaning and metaphor in the minutiae of everyday life.

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(Though I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well).

The phase of abstraction and metaphor, in which, through the deployment of grammatical metaphors in discourse, both oral and written, 'reality comes to consist of things rather than doing and happening' (Halliday 1993: 111).

Halliday (1993) divides the post-intermediate stages of acquisition into two phases: (a) The phase of abstraction and metaphor, in which, through the deployment of grammatical metaphors in discourse, both oral and written, 'reality comes to consist of things rather than doing and happening' (Halliday 1993: 111).

In the last decade he delved into mysticism and spirituality, with books like "Myth and Sexuality," "The Language of Vision: Myth and Metaphor in Society" and "The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor".

But "Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art," now at the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, has sidestepped the obvious and opted instead for nuance.

But behind the jokes and metaphor discovered in the simplest of phrases, there is surely also anger – not simply at the oppression or material poverty of the little people, but at the waste of their creative potential.

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