Comments on: Nathaniel Fairfax’s highly metaphorical 1674 treatise against metaphor http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/01/nathaniel-fairfax-1674-metaphor/ media & film, design, philosophy, politics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:44:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Nanette Elfstocking http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/01/nathaniel-fairfax-1674-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Nanette Elfstocking Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:25:11 +0000 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/?p=543#comment-421 Thank you for this!  I love the Bulk and Selvage; there are times when its beautiful, inventive prose, running in all directions at once in its enthusiasms, reminds me a little of Sterne, or Melville, or Carlyle.  (I'm thinking of Sartor Resartus — but Fairfax is so much more good-natured.) Thank you for this!  I love the Bulk and Selvage; there are times when its beautiful, inventive prose, running in all directions at once in its enthusiasms, reminds me a little of Sterne, or Melville, or Carlyle.  (I'm thinking of Sartor Resartus — but Fairfax is so much more good-natured.)

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