Product reviews for Magic of Modern Metaphor

Human beings cannot help but think of the world in terms of stories. The story amounts to an inbuilt template in our brains that puts our experience into context - remembering that `context` and `text` share the same root as `textiles`, meaning `to weave`. Stories weave up the patterns of our lives. And both adults and children love to hear (and spin) a good yarn.

Stories are also powerful because they work at many levels. We can appreciate them for their beginning, middle and a satisfying resolution at the end. But the roots of story go deep into the symbolic, metaphoric and `holistic` realm of the subconscious mind; into the soil from which grows the sense we make of ourselves and the world we live in.

In The Magic of Modern Metaphor David Hodgson has assembled a treasure box of the most wonderful sparkling tales - light, accessible, humorous and elegant in their apparent simplicity; `apparent` because like all good myths, legends and fairytales they plant seeds in our psyches that in time will bear fruit in many delightful and surprising ways.