WHAT WAS I THINKING ... Filling my Literary Fishbowl up with baseballs, when I should have been angling for metaphors? ....
"Metaforaging" as they say
met.a.phor |ˈmetəˌfôr, -fər| noun
~ a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable: “I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors
~ a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract: the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering.
ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer.’
All previous posts relating to baseball, the San Francisco Giants, and the 2010 World Series –– which of course the Giants won –– will be deleted in order to make space for a more literary approach to the game as I attempt to chronicle the evolution of my novel ... which coincidentally or not happens to be about baseball.
WAIT! What about the metaphor?
There is a song called "Love Is Like Baseball". It's a possibility I will keep in reserve, while I metaforage further, and finish the novel.
