LOL, NotThatGirl, Pio is a chemical engineer who gushes (an almost attractive quality in a man but not quite) who knows it will be very hot in Florida.

I was totally indifferent to Todd's post but I like the idea of the opposite of life being indifference and not death. I do not intend to die and am pleased I have an option.

I am happy that someone understands it. It was like sitting on a cloud for me.

Let's see now: the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.

Okay, I'll stop there. What does this mean? Of course the opposite of love is hate. Right?

No the opposite of love is not hate. They are two separate emotions. You can hate without having loved and you can love without having hated. I think they are both extreme emotions which are very rarely felt. I don't think I've hated in my life. I have loved.

Indifference is the wonderful state (regarding the OM) in which I am now where it JUST DOESN'T MATTER any more. It's a state of "who cares".

The opposite of art being indifference and not ugliness. I don't think so. The opposite of art is not ugliness. A feeling about art is not that the opposite is indifference or ugliness. Art is in your inner being and even the ugly can speak to that.

I think that might be a metaphor. j/k. I don't know what it is.

It is 123F outside and its not even noon. Define hot.

Actually I think love and hate are very closely related. Both are very strong emotions for something that you care very deeply about. When that dies, the emotions dies - indifference. So if you don't love someone, you are indifferent. If you like someone, you are different. If you love someone, you are very different.

Do I have to explain everything to you?

Well, it's above my head because I am lost.

A metaphor is like an analogy - or is that simile? I never can rememeber. Never read the old man and the sea but I did see the movie. Didn't see any metaphors though. it was tough to envision Spencer Tracy as a Cuban peasant fisherman. Not very well cast.

I will buy a copy of the old man and the sea in the USA and read it with my glass of Maker's Mark by my side - just for you ToddAC.

A metaphor is not an analogy, neither is a simile.

Examples:

Metaphor: The road is a dark ribbon.

Simile: The road is like a dark ribbon.

Analogy: Can't think of one right now.


Todd, I am glad it's above your head because all that scientific stuff is so far above my head I can't even see it.

So would:

A metaphor is not like an analogy

be a simile?

It will be interesting to see if the MM or the booklet puts you to sleep first.

My money is on el libro.

la libro?

No wonder I never learned Spanish.

Then what is an anecdote? I think I need an anecdote for my WW because of the bite marks she gave me. She may be diseased. Actually she IS diseased!

Have you ever read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig?

Jen,

Problem is, that's not the way authors write out their metaphors. They do it as symbolim. Well, maybe they do but take "The Great Gatsby" for instance. I read that book and rather enjoyed it. Fitzgerald is an economic word master, something I am lousy at. When my eleveth grade Lit teacher told me the book was about the elusiveness of the American dream, I nearly fainted.

Fitzgerald's metaphor for the dream was the green light off the end of the dock. But the rest of the book just told a story. How am I supposed to get that the book was about the American dream?

I hate to ask this but here goes: What in the world was "The Grapes of Wrath" about?

Or, to put it another way, why didn't Fitzgerald just write a one page summary and say simply that I believe the American dream is elusive for some. And then we could go drink a beer. Can you imagine how streamlined book reports would become for kids?

Hmm... maybe I should become a writer. Or a teacher. Oh, excuse me. We cannot call them teachers here anymore. They are "educators". Do you see the difference? They cannot be held responsible if a kid doesn't learn. It's the teacher's union hard at work.

I bet I get some hate mail for this one.

Pio,

Before you go, if you wanted to be known as and by "head louse" and not "head lice" why didn't you user the user name Piojito, instead of Piojitos?

She bit you? During the love note scuffle?

I have multiple personalities - none of which is very interesting.

I know that but why did WW bite you?

HELLO! EARTH TO TODDAC!

Yes she bit me. Where were you? Only skimming the posts again are we?

Did you bite back?

She was biting my arms, wrists and hands trying to get me to release the notes. Her hands were busy trying to tear my testicles off. I am not joking. This really happened.

No. I got my forearm under her chin in sort of a half-nelson so she could not direct her teeth where she wanted them. I just held her in about every bear hug position I could to keep her from doing me much harm. She still drew blood from various sites.