random thoughts about metaphor
This is a world that metaphors are everywhere.When we talk about military uniform, cherry or snake, or AIDS, we actually suggest more than the meaning the words contain. Chinese poet SunPu once said that music and mathematics are the most beautiful things, for they are able to show themselves without metaphors. Literature stand near metaphor to reveal those which can not be talked out. Speaking of those we know and express well, we might as well use this metaphor. People take on clothes because they have to, but there is no doubt that clothes lends charm to human, at least for other human.