<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a88306d2-9498-4ec6-9324-72f51ce2f56f/EAFCF24E-CA92-4D0C-B07C-08BBE398A779/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.twine.com/item/12mt7xmyf-l0/thinking-literally-the-surprising-ways-that-metaphors-shape-your-world-by-drake-bennett-the-boston-globe" href="http://www.twine.com/item/12mt7xmyf-l0/thinking-literally-the-surprising-ways-that-metaphors-shape-your-world-by-drake-bennett-the-boston-globe" style="font-size: 11px;">www.twine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twine.com/item/12mt7xmyf-l0/thinking-literally-the-surprising-ways-that-metaphors-shape-your-world-by-drake-bennett-the-boston-globe"><H1> <SPAN type="text" property="rdfs:label" subject="radar://2mt7xmwg-kt" id="item-label" class="">Thinking literally. The surprising ways that metaphors shape your world By Drake Bennett | The Boston Globe</SPAN> </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twine.com/item/12mt7xmyf-l0/thinking-literally-the-surprising-ways-that-metaphors-shape-your-world-by-drake-bennett-the-boston-globe"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.twine.com/img/4B53FE2A-D50B-4678-8695-67782E25CAAB" alt="Thinking literally. The surprising ways that metaphors shape your world By Drake Bennett | The Boston Globe" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twine.com/item/12mt7xmyf-l0/thinking-literally-the-surprising-ways-that-metaphors-shape-your-world-by-drake-bennett-the-boston-globe"><DIV>Metaphors are primarily thought of as tools for talking and writing--out of inspiration or out of laziness, we distill emotions and thoughts into the language of the tangible world. We use metaphors to make sense to one another.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twine.com/item/12mt7xmyf-l0/thinking-literally-the-surprising-ways-that-metaphors-shape-your-world-by-drake-bennett-the-boston-globe"><DIV>What they have found is that, in fact, we do.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twine.com/item/12mt7xmyf-l0/thinking-literally-the-surprising-ways-that-metaphors-shape-your-world-by-drake-bennett-the-boston-globe"><DIV>Metaphors aren’t just how we talk and write, they’re how we think. At some level, we actually do seem to understand temperament as a form of temperature, and we expect people’s personalities to behave accordingly. What’s more, without our body’s instinctive sense for temperature--or position, texture, size, shape, or weight--abstract concepts like kindness and power, difficulty and purpose, and intimacy and importance would simply not make any sense to us. Deep down, we are all Amelia Bedelia.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EAFCF24E-CA92-4D0C-B07C-08BBE398A779/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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