Literalize That Metaphor!

When I’m teaching at Toolbox, I talk about literalizing metaphors, but it’s always hard to come up with a concrete example of how that works. No longer.  I’ve watched Hotel Beau Sejour on Netflix. This ten-episode Belgian-made mystery series, with dialog in Flemish, opens with teenage Kato waking up in a hotel room, to discover her own bloody murdered corpse lying in the bathtub.  Kato escapes the room and shortly afterwards discovers that she’s a ghost, albeit one who can ride her own motorc...