One was towards idealism: dance as a sort of open symbol, a metaphor for emotion, an emanation of its music.
He opens with a metaphor of moviemaking — an autoerotic film is being shot in a studio — and he goes on side excursions that are also metaphorical.
Also making a splash at MOMA is the much anticipated survey "Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor," opening Oct. 4.
His memoir, "My Life as a Foreign Country," opens with a metaphor of the writer as a drone aircraft, flying at thirty-two thovernd feet over his life, "gathering the necessary intelligence, all that I have done, all that we have done, compressed into the demarcations annotated in the map below".
And Lefèvre's psychology puts him in a tradition, with Ramon Lull and Nicholas of Cusa, that was hospitable to Platonic views on universals such thinkers adopted a psychology especially open to mathematical metaphors as examples of universal cognition.
Instead, the open sea becomes a metaphor for abstraction.
It's a book with an extraordinary atmosphere – and a demonstration of how science fiction, by using a single bold central metaphor, can open up the possibilities of the novel.
The pedagogical metaphor can open doors to new worlds of comprehension in an educational and spiritual axiological level.
A feather which, to screw the metaphor, can open doors to other lucrative commissions, talking head gigs and even book deals.
