Thursday, 19 October 2023

THE POWER OF METAPHOR

'Metaphors are hard.
To discover similarities, to find connections once unseen, comprises some of the holiest work we can do as human beings, for it is a work of reconciliation. But this truth also entails the obverse: making wrong connections can be as dangerous as attaching the wrong cable clamp to the wrong battery terminal.'
Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How stories, Images & Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis, p.49.