metaphors

“it’s a metaphor for life”
she said, gesticulating at the
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I was tired.
sleepy with the eternal dimension shifts from the
- literal to figurative to metaphorical to actual -
dance
we were undertaking.

I could not comprehend why the scissors with the broken handles meant more
than being unable to cut the sellotape
or why cutting sellotape would be symbolic of
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in all its stickiness