Random Analogies


a: womb ~
b: an animal within an animal

What:

"In the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female viscous, closely resembling an animal; for it moves itself hither and thither in the flanks, also upwards in a direct line to below the cartilage of the thorax, and also obliquely to the right or to the left, either to the liver or the spleen; and it likewise is subject to prolapsus downwards, and, in a word, it is altogether erratic. It delights, also, in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it had an aversian to fetid smells and flees from them; and, on the whole the womb is like an animal within an animal."


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Writer: Galen
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Date: Mar 2 2014 6:45 PM


My Inner Bear Won't Shutup

a: social anxiety ~
b: battling a bear

What:

"having social anxiety is like waking up and battling a bear every morning and then having people tell you it's not that big a deal because they had to deal with a chihuahua humping their leg once."


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Writer: everybodyska
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Date: Apr 24 2014 5:57 PM



a: Capillary action ~
b: a person climbing a ladder

What: "With a pressure gradient that is promoting water to travel up the stem, individual water molecules are acting like a person climbing a ladder. As water clings to the sides of the tube (adhesive force), it pulls on adjacent water molecules (cohesive force) and those in effect pull on water molecules beneath it...it continues in this fashion. Water continues to climb up the column while pulling the others along with it. Remember to explain that these are theories to explain the phenomenon of water traveling against the force of gravity and all the forces have not been accounted for, being that in order for this to occur the force of gravity must equal less than the sum of the forces opposing it."

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Writer: Not Stated
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Apr 30 2014 6:34 PM



a: Modern sculpture ~
b: sushi

What:

"Modern sculpture is like sushi. It's just too strange at first, too unpredictable, too fishy, you might say. But in time, modern sculpture can win people over, just like a California roll with pickled ginger on the side."


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Writer: Doug MacCash
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Date: Jun 1 2015 8:36 PM



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