TO THE BABES OF THE FUTURE

Besides, I’ll be long gone into “A better land I Know…”  or  the happy hunting grounds…just hope it’s not an afterlife reincarnation during the crispin’ of Earth.

We’re almost halfway to 2050  and we still don’t know how to produce what Altman counts on saving us: nuclear fusion.  Planning on being rescued  by something that doesn’t yet exist is tomfoolery and not at all reassuring.

The fact is that the United States is still  the largest producer of fossil fuels in the world (Wikipedia). Next is Russia.  What’s that line about “Don’t do as I do; do as I say?”

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I’VE CHANGED MY MIND – Last post I said I was going to talk about not being friendlier and more outgoing/welcoming to blog visitors.  Well, (Surprise Surprise Surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say),  I changed my mind.  Is being flexible not a sign of maturity?  Maybe not;  a trait typical of females? That’s a lie! …Untrustworthiness?  I think so. Sorry.

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METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING –  The daughter who lives with me came down with Covid this week, just as my other daughter in Atlanta visited for 2 1/2 days.  That has little to do with anything, but I thought you’d like to know.  There were so many cases of Covid in her classroom that her level one class is closed for a week.  Anyway, I found a couple of things on metaphors to share:  The first is from an old journal of mine I just came across on metaphors:  (NOTE: I still say “Couple of,” which apparently has been changed to the preferred solitary “couple.”  Just another way I’m out of sync with the times. [Well, who would want to be in sync with them?]

(1) ” The old woman (for at 14 she was already  old)  stood before her mirror and beheld an angel.  Since she was no angel, she knew it was no mirror, but a metaphor.”

(2)  My source for this second sample is from Metaphor by Warren A. Shibbles, 1971, unfortunately outdated due to the fact that Metaphor was compiled before sterling evidence of the existence of the unconscious was established.  (He pooh poohs the notion).    The quotes on metaphors themselves are clear, however (that’s what the book is primarily composed of, quotes and references on metaphors).  : Christie Jeffries is cited from the July 1948 article “Metaphor in Sons and Lovers” in the Personalist  of July 1948″:

D. H. Lawrence’s imagery is said here to reveal himself as a tormented man with warring personalities, preoccupied with daily life, showing strong regression to infancy and dominated by emotional and sadistic tendencies.”

Ouch! Wow! OMG,  WHAT DO MINE REVEAL?!  Maybe I’ll share in another post, maybe not…depending on what I find…

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:  “A horse is a horse of course of course…”