Look at the verbs not the nouns.

That is how metaphors work. They use a function on some data set. A metaphor is using the same function as something else, but a different data set.

If you want to learn how a metaphor works, it is function not data. Most literalist look at the data in a metaphor, not the function.

Most Orwellians try to reverse the data in a function for a bad outcome to a function meant for a good outcome.

Almost like like.

While we are all due something, one might wonder if an Afro would suffice. But when the cks becomes an x, it shouldn't surprise us that the sky is the object of one's affection. Or is it another subject? Certainly Buber would have thought so, but would a kid from Seattle know the difference?

He used to hate it when I posted like that . . .

Sucker

It will be cold by the time you get here, but that's fine.

I've been looking for it in the DU archives but not having any luck.