this 'symbolic correspondence' is heading for some queer blue water
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> Symbolic correspondence is a marriage. The things beneath are
> related to the
> things above as Man and Wife. Bring them together in a new conjunction, a
> parallelismus membrorum, a rhyme, a couplet or copulation. In puns, "two
> words get on top of each other and become sexual"; in metaphor, two become
> one. What God hath joined no philosophy can put asunder.
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> -- Norman O. Brown, Love's Body
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