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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•5 months agoFirst you don’t understand a metaphor and then you take it literally. Metaphors are not literal truths, they are metaphors
minus-square@WaxedWookielink1•5 months agoMetaphors aren’t literal, but they are descriptive. Describing something that doesn’t stop as something that stops is a bad metaphor. “Hair of midnight” is a metaphor, but not one you’d use to describe a blonde. This isn’t complex.
First you don’t understand a metaphor and then you take it literally.
Metaphors are not literal truths, they are metaphors
Metaphors aren’t literal, but they are descriptive. Describing something that doesn’t stop as something that stops is a bad metaphor.
“Hair of midnight” is a metaphor, but not one you’d use to describe a blonde.
This isn’t complex.