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From: mark@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Mark Turner)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Metaphor
Message-ID: <241@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 16:40:19 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 16:40:19 1984
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Summary: 

Keywords:linguistics, semantics, metaphor

I would like to see a newsgroup for net.metaphor.
I am collecting metaphors and analogies of the following forms:

x is y (truth is beauty, beauty is but a flower, truth is the safest lie)
x is like y (a metaphysician is like a blind man in a dark room)
x is the y of z (the body is the socket of the soul)

and kinship metaphors, like "Death is the mother of beauty".
I would appreciate your sending any examples you have found to
...ihnp4!gargoyle!puck!mark
or
...lbl-csam!oddjob!gargoyle!puck!mark