Metaphor Templates by Christopher Dewdney

By disengaging a metaphor from its original application and then applying it to a novel setting one can fast breed hypercognitive structures. Conversely, by applying the laws of the metaphor throughout the systemic permutations of that metaphor; eg., if history is a book then limestone must be the pages of that book and fossils the writing on those pages, etc., one can generate novel associative binaries throughout the 'field' of which the original metaphor is but a minor component.

By reversing the causal flow of analogy language becomes a procedural system for generating hypercognitive structures.

As if, like hopeless delusional paranoids with delusions of reference, we couldn't help reading sense into any sequence of words due to the referential bias of language, and that this paranoia of reference is itself the engine of invention.