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Subject: Metaphor
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Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 05:45:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 11 05:45:10 1984
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From:  Charlie Crummer <crummer@AEROSPACE>

The thing about a metaphor is that it contains little explicit information.
It acts as a trigger in such a way that the hearer creates meaning for it.
Different hearers create different meanings.  For example, one hearer,
drawing from his background as an environmentalist might take "Man is a Wolf"
to mean that man has a wild, misunderstood soul while another hearer, drawing
from his background as a mountain man who has had to compete with wolves might
take the metaphor to mean that he himself is a savage beast that will kill,
if necessary, to live.

It becomes pretty far-fetched to make up a model of "metaphor" that says
that this information is contained in the statement of the metaphor.

  --Charlie