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,…