academic
n=2
Cognitive Puritans
a: Academic ~
b: cognitive puritan
What: Who is a cognitive puritan? This is a person who allows only a certain type of conversation or thinking. Most prevalent amount computer and science types working with machines and things and not enough contact with human beings. This is attitude is very common in Universities. The key adjectives are literal and logical. These are the mental attributes that are necessary for computer programing and science.
Useful?
Writer: ????
LCC: L
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Mar 20 2011 2:55 AM
# 831 Critique Analogy
Inbred Royals And Academic Poetry?
a: Academic poetry ~
b: Royal offspring
What: "The overwhelming (really underwhelming) majority of contemporary poetry is mincing, deliberately esoteric, and ultimately bloodless-versification by poetasters whose only life experience has transpired within well-tenured campus walls. The poetry of those ensconced in academia is like the offspring of royal families that have intermarried for centuries. "....the rest is in the link.....
Useful?
Writer: Patrick Walsh
LCC: L
Where:
Date: Dec 31 2010 6:27 AM
# 746 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.