Scatterbrainy

It is comforting to find that I am not the only one dwelling in metaphors and allegories
instead of living in the "real" world.
According to James Geary, the average person utters aproximately 6 metaphors per minute.
And he suggests that just as we cannot ignore the literal meaning of words,
we cannot ignore the analogies triggered by metaphors.

And this is precisely why I love Jeanette Winterson and Joanne Harrison.
They know how to take advantage of this our inability to ignore metaphors.
And to benefit from our capacity to embrace them and thus expand our conception of the world.
Where a literal word may trigger one or two images in your brain,
a metaphor offers a wide range of symbols, layers of meaning; Beauty.

Ironic as it may seem,
the use of metaphors allows us to more thorougly describe the world
than using the exact and literal lexica.