patteren:
040608;462
series: meta;113
patteren:
040608;462 |
| this is accessible and clearly illustrated by dante's description of the metaphor of the poet : in which the literal sense is a fiction and the invented sense is true : but taken further: the description of the truth is more accurate when a fiction is employed to express it : might this paradox result partly because the historical and factual perspective, cumbersome in its expressive accuracy, is removed in the device of the metaphor and thus the truth shines through the allegory more brightly : |
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