I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World

James Geary

It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! This is one of Shakespeare's most famous lines and one of the most well-known metaphors in literature. But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device employed by love-struck poets when they refer to their girlfriends as interstellar masses of incandescent ga...