fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo: [Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [death as a metaphor for sex] ” Bottom text: “ [is a dead metaphor] ”] Submitted by: guardiansilence As a writer, playwright, and poet, I can’t help being annoyed by many “established” metaphors.  While any good writer, in a postmodernist sense, will (should) be wary of such notions and can use them advantageously, memorabilia of bygone eras garble new images in the unwitting reader.  But in any case, I feel most can appreciate the playfully coy nature of the juxtaposition. Or perhaps, I’ve created a monster. ;P
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[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [death as a metaphor for sex] ” Bottom text: “ [is a dead metaphor] ”]

Submitted by: guardiansilence

As a writer, playwright, and poet, I can’t help being annoyed by many “established” metaphors.  While any good writer, in a postmodernist sense, will (should) be wary of such notions and can use them advantageously, memorabilia of bygone eras garble new images in the unwitting reader.  But in any case, I feel most can appreciate the playfully coy nature of the juxtaposition. Or perhaps, I’ve created a monster. ;P

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    Glad I understand this metaphor because doing Shakespeare is hard without it
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    Pre-1800s they thought that everytime you had sex, you were shortening your life. So the metaphor makes sense. -pushes...
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    So are you saying it’s a… sexy metaphor?
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    I didn’t even know this was a thing, and I use death as an extensive metaphor for lots of things. Sex is not among them...
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