4 ms·
Maybe nothing can be an island in a metaphorical sense, but literal islands are possible?
by booleandilemma 3y ago
Maybe nothing can be an island in a metaphorical sense, but literal islands are possible?
- ithkuil 3y agoWell, by definition the island metaphor is about the isolation that islands provide. So surely metaphorical islands are likelier to preserve the property of being islands even if the physical ones turn out to be much more fuzzy. GP was clearly mixing metaphor and real to create an effect. "Nothing is really an island" -> "not even real islands are so isolated as it may seem".