Indeed, most prose, if not language, deploys itself as a sort of see-sawing between the literal and the metaphorical, sometimes extending into the unintelligible in the case of some poetry. — StreetlightX
What about the contents of this forum which is filled with abstract terms like mind, thought, belief, and a thousand others that are not literal because they have no concrete reality to refer to but are not metaphors either? — Barry Etheridge
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