Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Metaphors

  • Memory

    Memory is the brake to time's onrush. Brakes sometimes fail. Do these metaphors fail too?

  • Sensory Metaphors of Vanity

    The empty aspect of the world. Or, exchanging an aural metaphor for the visual: this world rings hollow. In tactile terms: it's slippery, flimsy. And it stinks because it's rotten. The food that supplies us has a limited shelf life and so do we. And it leaves a bad taste in our mouths. We speak…