we implicitly assume that ancient authors could’ve expressed their metaphors in plain and literal prose if they’d wanted to, but > if you read primitive utterances you will soon realize that what we call metaphorical speech was the natural mode of expression for early humans
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all language is metaphorical! the idea of "literal language" is a confusion (and a metaphor!)
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