QC

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

when we say that our blood is boiling, this may be for us a normal metaphor for anger. but for primitive humans, anger *literally* resembled the sensation of blood boiling within them they ofc had no scientific explanation, no way to translate the metaphorical literal