David:
I could compile a list of "authorities" not just rhetoric folks, but folks
from across the disciplines (such as Ernesto Grassi from Philosophy), who
consider metaphor not only sound rhetorical practice but a necessary starting
place of rhetorical praxis. But I must say that my fave is Ross Winterowd
who says (as he is talking about KB) "Humans live not by enthymemes (thesis,
topic sentences) alone." Is he an expert? You bet. Is he the only one? Naw.
And I don't cite him here solely because he is an "authority" but rather
because, at least on this issue, I am "consubstantial" with the man. We may
disagree on other things, when as Winterowd would aphorize, "Momentary
consubstantiality, the ultimate goal of all talk, the one many, the many one.
In heaven the moment is eternity, but time-doomed creatures live in the
illusory Now, between Then and Then, stopping psychological time briefly
until someone utters the inevitable observative: "But...." And the loom of
discourse clacks on, warp and woof of statement and counterstatement"
However, I have yet to clack or woof at him.
Janet
troping off to lunch
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