Interesting bunch of links about metaphor, the mind-body connection and science over at metafilter.
And finally, the very best poem ever written about metaphor: Very Like a Whale by Ogden Nash.
2 thoughts on “Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.”
Comments are closed.
The Nash poem is very funny. Although, personally, I like metaphor. I’ll have to come back to the rest (am at work).
I love metaphor (you might have guessed from my relentless use of it) but think the Nash poem is high-larious.
I was reading Billy Collins’s “The Trouble With Poetry” yesterday at the bookstore, and where he says, “And how will it ever end?/unless the day finally arrives/when we have compared everything in the world/to everything else in the world,” I laughed out loud.