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  • (A college student who studied "The Zombie as Metaphor" is no substitute for radio detective Guy Noir, but a military-trained female diner owner offers some hope that lutefisk will one day again reign supreme at church suppers.)

    5 books on zombies Yvonne Zipp 2010

  • Metaphor is the food and drink of the mind. posted by Dr. Richard Scott Nokes at 7: 04 AM

    Archive 2005-12-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • Metaphor is the food and drink of the mind. posted by Dr. Richard Scott Nokes at 7: 04 AM

    Fresh Metaphor, Refreshing Simile Richard Nokes 2005

  • Metaphor from the flowing robes worn in the East, which have to be girt up with

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • I mull remark, however, that the word Metaphor is fomctimcs ufed in a loofer and more extended fenfe j for the application of a term in any figurative fig - nification, whether the Figure be founded on refemblance, or on fome other relation, which two objefts bear to one another.

    Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In Three Volumes ... 1787

  • 3 An early version of this essay appeared in Metaphor and Knot

    Notes on 'Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.' 2005

  • Today I was reading a paper on a connectionist model, called the Metaphor by Pattern Completion (MPC) model (Thomas & Mareschal, 1999), that implements the attributive categorization model (see posts III and IV), and I thought it might be interesting to give a quick description of it.

    A Connectionist Model of Metaphor Chris 2004

  • Today I was reading a paper on a connectionist model, called the Metaphor by Pattern Completion (MPC) model (Thomas & Mareschal, 1999), that implements the attributive categorization model (see posts III and IV), and I thought it might be interesting to give a quick description of it.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Chris 2004

  • Metaphor, which is to be taken here inclusively as any representation of one subject matter in terms liter - ally appropriate not to it but to some different subject matter, has been pervasively present within religious discourse from earliest known times.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK FERR 1968

  • This is always the meaning of the Figure called Metaphor which we have here. the angels of the seven Assemblies; and the seven lamp-stands [93] are

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

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