Yes, but it seems so damn limited a metaphor. There's not even ever any distortion of the body, any attempt to convey seeing for miles, reaching things on the other side of the world. There's you. In a landscape. Nothing is special. The landscape means things that are special, but there's nothing remarkable about it in itself: a picture would convey a generic landscape scene, no implication of knowledge and commmunication or information--no implication of the abstract.
I mean, I'd at least expect a transient reference to synesthesia or something.
Tangent that the cars reference brought up; I'd also expect at least some reference to the tendancy to regard things as extensions of the operator--in a car accident, you say "He hit me!" or maybe "He hit my car!", not so much "His car hit my car!" And there's none of that describing the Internet--it's always described as distinctly other, and with something that's so much a matter of interpretation and effort, that strikes me as a rather artificial boundary.
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Date: 2005-06-24 05:32 pm (UTC)I mean, I'd at least expect a transient reference to synesthesia or something.
Tangent that the cars reference brought up; I'd also expect at least some reference to the tendancy to regard things as extensions of the operator--in a car accident, you say "He hit me!" or maybe "He hit my car!", not so much "His car hit my car!" And there's none of that describing the Internet--it's always described as distinctly other, and with something that's so much a matter of interpretation and effort, that strikes me as a rather artificial boundary.