Here's a great article on unlocking some of the hidden metaphors, references, and analogies sprinkled throughout classic literature and even our common parlance, it's like a great big riddle or mystery to solve, to deepen the meaning, to truly understand what the author is trying to convey (rather than the horrendous idea that the author is only saying what we want them to say). I remember reading one of the 'Anne of Green Gables' books and came across a paragraph wherein a child asked her about 'the pelican of the wilderness' and I was delighted, I wonder how many thoroughly modern people could link that reference up with the King James version of the book of Job? Don't become irrelevant and literally illiterate, go brush up on your anachronistic metaphors asap!
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