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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is...

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is...

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the...

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the...

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare...

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare...

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We...

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We...

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have...

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have...

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and...

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and...

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about...

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about...

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold...

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold...

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves...

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves...

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our...

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Language is memory and metaphor

Language is memory and metaphor

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be...

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be...

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our...

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our...

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding...

We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding...