“Metaphor is the dreamwork of language
and, like all dreamwork,
its interpretation reflects as much on the interpreter as on the originator.
The interpretation of dreams requires collaboration
between a dreamer and a waker,
even if they be the same person;
and the act of interpretation
is itself a work of the imagination.
So too understanding a metaphor is
as much a creative endeavour
as making a metaphor,
and as little guided by rules.”