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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
   AK>  there's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an   
   AK>  open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It   
   AK>  feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.   
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   AK>  Climbing into what? What does he mean? :)   
      
      
             A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is made which   
   is imaginatively but not always literally applicable.   
      
      
             Common aphorisms like the ones Denis quoted here are metaphorical in   
   nature as often as not... e.g.   
      
                  Still waters run deep.   
      
                  Don't put all your eggs in one basket.   
      
                  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.   
      
                  Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.   
      
      
             I can't tell you from personal experience how it feels to climb into   
   such a car with an attractive person of the opposite gender, but I am reminded   
   of James Bond movies which call for the willing suspension of disbelief.  I am   
   also reminded of a gal I once knew who exclaimed "Wow!  Did you see that?" but   
   was unable to tell me whether the convertible or the young driver was what had   
   so impressed her.  And then there's the story I heard about a gal who robbed a   
   bank dressed only in her birthday suit.  The witnesses weren't of much help to   
   the police because they hadn't noticed her face.  :-))   
      
      
             I'm not sure what the author means by climbing into a metaphor here.   
   Climbing into the pages of a fairy tale or a thriller would make more sense to   
   me.  OTOH I get the point that whilst an open-top sports car is not what you'd   
   expect somebody to be driving if they're trying to keep a low profile it might   
   make a fine getaway car if it draws more attention than the occupants....  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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