{"id":826,"date":"2009-05-07T02:29:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T02:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=826"},"modified":"2009-05-07T02:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T02:34:00","slug":"the-spark-of-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/05\/07\/the-spark-of-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"The spark of metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Owen Barfield explain poetry was a pretty heavy task. I&#8217;ll have to return to it sometime and put more sweat into it. Sometimes what you really need to explain something is a metaphor. Even if the thing your explaining IS metaphor!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stories, in having this [subversive belief changing] effect, function as complex metaphors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metaphor consists in bringing two sets of ideas close together, close enough for a spark to jump, but not too close, so that the spark, in jumping, illuminates for a moment the whole area around, changing perceptions as it does so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even so, the subversive story comes close enough to the story already believed by the hearer for a spark to jump between them; and nothing will ever be quite the same again.<\/p>\n<p>-N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God, p.40 (Footnotes say the metaphor illustration comes from Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"\/coffee_images\/tesla-spark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"425\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 283px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 283\/425;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mhw\/101870509\/\">Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Owen Barfield explain poetry was a pretty heavy task. I&#8217;ll have to return to it sometime and put more sweat into it. Sometimes what you really need to explain something is a metaphor. Even if the thing your explaining IS metaphor! Stories, in having this [subversive belief changing] effect, function as complex metaphors. Metaphor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/05\/07\/the-spark-of-metaphor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The spark of metaphor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}