James Geary

JAMES GEARY – on the Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way we See the World.

Metaphor is a way of describing one thing in terms of another, like this....

He was the apple of her eye.......My muscles are rock hard.......We had a pig of a day......

...And, as Shakespeare had Romeo say: “Juliet is the sun.”

When talking, we utter one metaphor for every 10 to 20 words, or about six metaphors a minute.

Metaphor is used not only in Literature but also in politics, business, psychology, and science.

James Geary, former editor of Time magazine in Europe, is the author of the best-selling Brief History of the Aphorism.

His latest book is I is an Other: the Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way we See the World.

Tickets - £6 (£5)

DOUBLE TICKET - £10 for two events: 

James Geary at 6.30pm and Sport Thought 8.00pm

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