Have you noticed how many times in your reading that a metaphor pops up using water in some sort of way? Let's make this a place to collect and share these as we find them. We'll leave them in the comments section. Here are the rules:
1. No fair going to a website on water metaphors. I don't personally know of any but I'm sure they are out there.
2. After you quote the metaphor, give the source.
3. Be sure to tell who you are.
Happy hunting!
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6 comments:
Hey Dad,
I haven't found any water metaphors yet..but I'm still searching! Greeting from the land of Oz...love Abby
Abby:You certainly have an opportunity to see lots of water...maybe some metaphors will "flow" from your experiences
Hey, I found one! In Thomas Fleming's book, The Perils of Peace, he writes:
"A good narrative is a living creature, a flowing river that carries the reader from the questioning first pages through the turbulent tangled middle to the (hopefully) climactic close." First of all, he mixes metaphors which is a no-no. Second, in what way is a narrative like a living creature? I can see the flowing part and turbulence, etc but if I was the editor I would have nixed the living creature idea because it just doesn't fit.
Here's one: "So one feels that the nation, ready at any instance to fly apart or simply to disintegrate into its disparate and warring elements, was held together, not by politics but by words, torrents and rivers and oceans of words, describing, explaining, and, in the last analysis, reconciling Americans to each other and to the United States of America." - from "The Rise of Industrial America", p.403
Aren't there any other readers in this family? Here's yet another:
"Although precursors can be identified before 1914, adequate space was not available for fascism until after WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascist movements could first reach full development only in the outwash from those two tidal waves."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
Remember the water metaphor I told you about from astronomy class?? I don't think I've come across any since then. Unfortunately I haven't been reading that much. I'm reading a book on marriage right now though, so I'll keep an eye out! You should ask the boys, they are always reading. :)
About the mixed metaphor..I agree, living creature makes me think of some hairy beast that lives in a cave, at least right now. Maybe a narrative is like a living creature in that things that are living adapt and change; they're not static.
Hope you're having a good day!
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