L68:
A live metaphor is a linguistic short-circuit. Non-metaphorical ways of speaking conduct meaning, in insulated carriers, to certain ends and purposes. Metaphors shave off the insulation and meaning arcs across the gap.
A dead metaphor is one in which this arcing between gestalts no longer occurs. Its energy has been diverted into and contained by the culture’s linguistic grid.
- from Jan Zwicky's Wisdom & Metaphor.
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