Bad allergy, I’d said. Me too, he replied. We probably have the same one. Again I shrugged my shoulders. He picked up my old teddy bear in one hand, turned its face toward him, and whispered something into its ear. Then, turning the teddy’s face to me and altering his voice,...
Over the course of nine novels, Tom Clancy’s “genius for big, compelling plots” and his “natural narrative gift” (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized hundreds of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time。 Rainbow Six, however, go...
I came into this book thinking metaphors/analogies were a core part of human intelligence and even so I was surprised to find that they're literally everywhere in our language!The thesis I took away is that humans cannot have a conversation with each other without using metaphors。 For example...