Posts Tagged ‘metaphor’

Suppose you enter your bedroom. It’s not totally dark. But dimly lit. Coiled peacefully, a snake is cognized with your eyes. Immediately your body reacts in fear. Organs contract. Heat is felt. Scream is uninhibited and loudly articulated. Snake’s strike is sharply visualized. All this happens in milliseconds without your deliberation. Recollecting your “primitive composure”,…