On the risks of thoughts entangled in space (i.e., thoughts entangled in a metaphor or an abstract notion used to describe concrete facts, happenings, or events):

… all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.^[1]

George Eliot, Middlemarch.

‘Capita a ognuno di noi, sul serio o per scherzo, scoprire che i nostri  pensieri restano ingarbugliati nelle metafore e che in base a queste prendiamo decisioni fatali.’

Note

[1] George Eliot, Middlemarch (New York: Barnes and Nobles Classics, 1996), 80.

Work Cited

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. New York: Barnes and Nobles Classics, 1996.

Image Credits

Featured Image by Numen/For Use: String, installation in Bratislava, SK, 2019