OSSIFYING METAPHORS: WHAT DO WE DO WHEN WE GIVE NAMES TO THINGS?
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]
F. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. In this document there are five pictures.
2.The only thing you have to do is to write what you see on each picture.
3. You cannot look at all the five pictures before writing the names of the things that appear on the pictures. You have to go one by one.
4. Once you have written a name, you cannot change it.
5. You can write the words either in English or Dutch
Wout's answers
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| NAME: TREE, ROAD, HEIDE, HORIZON, SCHADUW, EEN PLAATS OM NAAR TOE TE GAAN |
Translation into English: Tree, road, heather, horizon, a place where to go
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NAME: EEN AUTO, EEN LEEG NUMMERBORD, WOLKEN OP DE
VOORRUIT, NOG EEN AUTO, ZWART, WIT, GRIJS, MERCEDES, EEN LEEUW, EEN EUROPEES
STUKJE BLAUW, KLINKERS, WIELEN, VELGEN
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Translation into English: A car, a blank number plate, clouds on the windshield, another black car, and a white car, and a grey car, Mercedes, a lion, a piece of the blue European flag, bricks, wheels, rims.
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NAME: BLOEMEN, MAGENTA, WIT, GROEN, DRIE, EN EEN
VIERDE
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Translation into English: Flowers, magenta, white, green, three, and a fourth one.
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| NAME: SNEAKER, GYMSCHOEN, BLAUW, WIT, ADIDAS, ORANJE, 3 WITTE STREPEN, VETERS ZONDER EINDE, DRIE BLAUWE STREPEN. SCHADUW OP HET PAPIER, GEEN KANTLIJN, NO FRAME |
Translation into English: sneaker, blue, white, Adidas, orange, three white stripes, shoe laces without an end, three blue stripes, shadow on the paper, no margin, no frame.
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| NAME: HOUT, MUURTJE, TEKENINGEN IN HET HOUT, ALSOF ER BEESTJES IN GELEEFD HEBBEN, NERVEN, GRAS |
Translation into English: Wood, small wall, drawings on the wood, as if beasts had been living there, nerves, grass.