Sunday, 11 December 2005

I am no friend of metaphors

"I am no friend of metaphors;
modern literature has given me a great aversion to them;
it has come almost to the point where, everytime I come upon a metaphor, I am seized by an involuntary fear that its true purposes is to conceal an obscurity in the thought."

Soren Kierkegaard
"Either/Or - A Fragment of Life"
p. 130
Penguin Classics, London, 1992, 2004



Sunday 11 December 2005 6:37am
(Waiting to fly to Singapore)

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