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posted by rob l. on January 02, 1998 at 13:10:52:
in reply to: Some resposes to Moira's questions. posted by Jack Butler on December 29, 1997 at 11:45:02:
Re: Jack's answers I don't want to be ALL OVER the various dialogues here but i couldn't resist. It occurs to me that the distinction between illustration and metaphor has more than one layer. It is not like one illustration simply illustrates whereas another is a metaphor, although that is often how it works. An illustration may be a metaphor, that is a symbol or it can be both, the way a tree can represent "oak" and also "permanence" or "conservativism". My point here is I think Jack's site is working this terrain of both illustration and metaphor. If i may be so bold, risking being too simplistic, I see the symbolic aspects of the scientific project "embryogenesis" having to do, in a very particular and specialized way, with broad life metaphors"birth", "growth", and "change". It is so unusual to use sceintific discourse in such a metaphoric way.
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