"In the recent Italian film Il Postino, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda teaches an uneduacted mailman first the word and then the art of metafore. The mailman is a quick study, and soon he is asking Neruda an interesting question: "Is the world perhaps a metaphor for something else?" Neruda pauses and then says that he will have to think about this question. But he never gives the postman his answer." Bruce Cumings
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