>This woman's metaphor was not only wearing me, but it
> created affect at the deepest level of my being - I wept as I mentioned.
> For myself MM is only the outermost level of the figure, the figure is the
> first level of the metaphor, and there are hundreds of levels. After all
> metaphor is metamorphosis, it is from biology in one sense that metaphor
> emerges from. The deepest metaphor is a perceptual device, a probe
> allowing one to "go in" and "farther" and also to "go out." NO, metaphor
> is not only a "figure of speech" rather is it the speech of Figure.
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>if I wore this
> woman's inner life, it was more than a mere media framing, it was the
> grinding out of another body, the body of empathy and identity, the
> creation in fact of anther body
The fact that you wept is something that really cut through; it
provided something even more powerful than a steel building pressing
into the chest. I'm very interested in your conception of figuration,
and the relationship between figuration and embodiment. Can you
elaborate?