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get with it.” As in all metaphors, there are complex ratios
among four parts: “Your invitation is to ordinary invitations as
ball games are to conventional social life.”
It is in this way that by seeing one set of relations
through another set that we store and amplify experience in
such forms as money. For money is also a metaphor. And all
media as extensions of ourselves serve to provide new
transforming vision and awareness. “It is an excellent
invention,” Bacon says, “that Pan or the world is said to make
choice of Echo only (above all other speeches or voices) for his
wife, for that alone is true philosophy which doth faithfully
render the very words of the world . . . .”
Today Mark II stands by to render the masterpieces of
literature from any language into any other language, giving as