Abstract Visual Metaphor

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Which of the above images is most is much more closely associated with the following quotation ?

" We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on... "


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Now read a second quote from the same man a see if you still choose the same image:


"It is almost impossible to carry the torch of wisdom through a crowd without singeing someone's beard."



Now consider how the two quotes compliment each other and support each other's thesis. This seems very much the way I sense the presence of individuality. Being that I practice sensing and recognizing astrological patterning, I could tell that the author ('speaker,')
was born with the Sun conjunct Neptune (and had some important major aspect of the planet Pluto.) in his natal chart.
Upon checking him out, I find that the angle between the Sun and Neptune was only two minutes of one degree of arc. If one does the math, one finds that my "guess," in terms of percentage of correctness = 99.9999% And, the next planet in terms of closeness of aspect (here a trine, an angle of 120 degrees) was indeed Pluto. These perceptions (not really guesses) are the joy of discovery found only by way of the art of astrology.

Misc.
If anyone reading happen to think of George Orwell, while reading the first quote, you get a gold star, for he too was born Sun conjunct Neptune and Pluto also being the next prominent feature of his natal chart. But here is the author:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg

Speculation: If there was an actual author writing about Moses and a "burning bush", was he too born with the Sun conjunct Neptune.... :)
Exodus 3, 1-4:
¹ Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ² There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. ³ So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up."

⁴ When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!"
And Moses said, "Here I am."

[As you can see, I think astrology has never had the slightest problem engulfing its less imaginative competitors...: ) ]